It can not be without admiration the ancient Egyptian culture that left to their legacy a world in pictograms unlike any other people. Many cultures originated ethnic languages with pictogram's but then moved on to script, while the Egyptians did too in hieratic, but continued their love affair with the hieroglyphic puzzle.
The entire ancient Egyptian world in pictures.
The head of a bull represents a bull, and a loaf of bread simply a loaf of bread, but more than just this, a pair of legs can be walking or walking backward. All living creatures, action, belief, and universal existence are placed into pictures.
Egyptian hieroglyphs came to their full form around 2000 bc in Pharaonic Egypt's Middle Kingdom, but never stopped being developed upon. The pictograms could be placed into arrangements that were visually compelling and normally read from right to left, even though the ancient populace loved to send their messages in many directions.
Later Egyptian scribes would make the pictograms so complicated that they could talk among themselves in the presence of foreign overlords, whether Persian, Greek, or Roman.
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