101 Amazing Facts about Ancient Egypt
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Hieroglyphs, an early form of writing, were invented by the Egyptians in around 3000 BC. It is thought that they were first used as wall paintings with meaning, later going on to become more complex and descriptive - in fact there are more than seven hundred different hieroglyphs!
Hieroglyphs were in fact only used for official inscriptions and ritual purposes. For everyday use, a script called ‘hieratic’ was used.
The word hieroglyph is Greek; it comes from the words hieros (sacred) and glyphe (carving). It was so called because the Greeks found the writings on the walls of temples.
The last known hieroglyphic inscription is in the Temple of Isis in Philae, and was inscribed in 394