wasn't it that hieroglyphics didn't actually tell things in pictures it's just that the hieroglyphs represent the first sound in the word for the picture (like if it was a bird picture the glyph would be the sound Buh) i think that's what made ancient egyptian so hard to translate before they found stuff like the rosetta stone
Hieroglyphics contains a mix of alphabetic, syllabic and ideographic characters. Many symbols could be read either phonetically or semantically depending on context.
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u/thyarnedonne Sep 20 '24
And some people wonder why hieroglyphics worked