Left to right writing.
Right to left writing.
Since the third dynasty, the Egyptians had the hieroglyphic script.
This script has different types of pictures of symbols.
Some of the symbols have multiple meanings. For example the legs
mean walk, run, come, go and even more.
The hieroglyphs can be written in three directions. From top to bottom, from left to right and from right to left.
To distinguish between horizontal and vertical, the egyptians used a vertical rule if they wrote from top to bottom.
To distinguish between left-to-right and vice versa, they changed the symbols itself (see the example).
Left to right writing. Right to left writing.
The hieroglyphic writing is decrypted by Champollion. He studied the Stone of Rossetta for 14 years and found the key.
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