Hieroglyphs could be written vertically ... These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of history. This is in contrast to societies that had no written record ...

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

According to History, Young started to examine the Rosetta stone in 1814. He found that some of the hieroglyphics were contained in an oval, which he called cartouches, and that these spelled out ...