Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs , were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic together with alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus together with wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet. Through the Phoenician alphabet's major child systems the Greek and Aramaic scripts, the Egyptian hieroglyphic program is ancestral to the majority of scripts in advanced use, almost prominently the Latin and Cyrillic scripts through Greek and the Arabic script and possibly Brahmic brand of scripts through Aramaic, Phoenician, and Greek Pillai 2021.
The use of hieroglyphic writing arose from proto-literate symbol systems in the Early Bronze Age, around the 32nd century BC Naqada III, with the first decipherable sentence sum in the Egyptian language dating to the Second Dynasty 28th century BC. Egyptian hieroglyphs developed into a mature writing system used for monumental inscription in the classical language of the Middle Kingdom period; during this period, the system made ownership of approximately 900 distinct signs. The use of this writing system continued through the New Kingdom and Late Period, and on into the Persian and Ptolemaic periods. behind survivals of hieroglyphic use are found alive into the Roman period, extending into the 4th century AD.
With theclosing of pagan temples in the 5th century, cognition of hieroglyphic writing was lost. Although attempts were made, the script remained undeciphered throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The decipherment of hieroglyphic writing was finally accomplished in the 1820s by Jean-François Champollion, with the guide of the Rosetta Stone.