Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs means "holy writing." The priests and scribes of ancient Egypt
used this form of picture - writing (Phonetic) with its several hundred signs, to
record the nation's historical and religious texts. Common people wrote in
demotic script. One interesting fact is that in 1798 one of Napoleon's soldiers
found a stone in an egyptian village called Rosetta. The famous Rosetta Stone's
message, written in trilingual (Koine Greek, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and
demotic script), gave scholars the key to deciphering most of the ancient Middle
Kingdom Egyptian hieroglyphics.