Why Did Egyptians Use Different Writing Scripts For Stone And For Papyrus?
Ancient Egyptians used to carve written stories on to every available stone surface of their sacred temples and religious sites using a complex system of hieroglyphs. These were devised over thousands to years and the scribes that produced them had favoured positions in Egyptian society because they were so skilled. The scribes designed each individual set of hieroglyphs so that they could be read from left to right or right to left, bottom to top or top to bottom. The system works on stone, but it is too complicated to do on papyrus, so the Egyptians developed a simpler system to use on paper. The word hieroglyph means sacred carved letter and it describes the appearance of the writing, which is formed by thousands of different pictorial symbols. A wavy horizontal line, for example is the symbol for water and three wavy horizontal lines, one of top of the other, represents the River Nile.
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