Egyptian Hieroglyphs Written In Stone Sticker

Egyptian Hieroglyphs Written In Stone Close up detail of a carved stone with Egyptian Hieroglyphs looking like they could have been chiseled out yesterday. Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred carvings") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs" By Paul Thompson Photography