Ancient Egypt  by Mandy Barrow  This site uses cookies. See our
Cookie Policy for information  Egyptian Writing   Interesting
Fact: The Egyptians did not write vowels and did not use any
punctuation.  What is Egyptian writing called?  The Egyptian
writing called hieroglyphics used pictures to represent
different objects, actions, sound or ideas. There were more than
700 hieroglyphs. Some pictures stood for whole words.   Write
like an Egyptian, see you name in hieroglyphs  iWhat does the
word hieroglyph mean?  Hieroglyphs is made from two Greek words:
• hieros meaning holy   • glyphe meaning writing  So hieroglyph
means holy writing.  iHow do we know how to read hieroglyphics ?
This writing was uncovered by the Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphics
uses small pictures which represent the sound of the object or
an idea associated with the object.  iHow do you know which way
to read Hieroglyphs?  You need to look closely at the
hieroglyphs to find out. It depends on which way the people or
animals are facing. For ex