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Hieroglyph, a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments. Hieroglyphic symbols may represent the objects that they depict but usually stand for particular sounds or groups of sounds. Learn more about hieroglyphs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r ə ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /, / ˈ h aɪ r oʊ ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic , syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 100 distinct characters.
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Egyptian language
- right-to-left script, left-to-right
- (Proto-writing)Egyptian hieroglyphs
- DictionaryHi·er·o·glyph/ˈhī(ə)rəˌɡlif/
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- 1. a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems: "hieroglyphs describing the Mayan calendar"
Jul 2, 2015 · The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was one of the writing systems used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language. Because of their pictorial elegance, Herodotus and other important Greeks believed that Egyptian Hieroglyphs were something sacred, so they referred to them as 'holy writing'.
- Priscila Scoville
Hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. Those individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for objects, or as symbols for sounds. The term hieroglyphic was first used to describe the script found on Egyptian temple walls and public monuments.
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Like cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs were used for record-keeping, but also for monumental display dedicated to royalty and deities. The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hieros 'sacred' and gluptien 'carved in stone'. The last known hieroglyph inscription was 394 C.E.
The term "hieroglyph" originally referred only to Egyptian hieroglyphs, but has now been expanded to include other hieroglyphic scripts, such as Cretan, Luwian, Mayan, and Mi'kmaq. The Egyptians used hieroglyphs mainly for formal, religious inscriptions (hence their name, "the god’s words").
