What’re hieroglyphs?

Hieroglyphs are logograms used to record language, with examples surviving from ancient cultures such as the Egyptians and Mayans. The word “hieroglyphics” comes from the Greek for sacred writing. Hieroglyphs can represent language as an ideogram, determiner, or phonogram. The Rosetta Stone allowed for the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the mid-1800s, revealing much about […]

Skip to content