Hieroglyphics is are of the oldest forms of writing. They started in Egypt around 3000 BC and employ pictorial characters to represent objects, people and animals. Egypt was full of hieroglyphic ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from ... It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation.

Hieroglyphics would survive until well past the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., and some historians ...