This article shows the way of communication in Egypt decades
ago; more specifically it shows the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The
Egyptian languages (also known as Copto-Egyptian) consist of ancient Egyptian
and Coptic, and form a separate branch among the family of Afro-Asiatic
languages. The Egyptian language is among the first written languages, and is
known from hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and sheets of papyrus.
The Coptic language, the only extant descendant of Egyptian, is today the
liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Hieroglyphs emerged from the
preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. For example, symbols on Gerzean
pottery from ca. 4000 BCE resemble hieroglyphic writing. For many years the
earliest known hieroglyphic inscription was the Narmer Palette, found during
excavations at Hierakonpolis (modern Kawm al-Ahmar) in the 1890s, which has
been dated to ca. 3200 BCE. The first full sentence written in hieroglyphs so
far discovered was found on a seal impression found in the tomb of
Seth-Peribsen at Umm el-Qa'ab, which dates from the Second Dynasty. In the era
of the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom, about 800
hieroglyphs existed. By the Greco-Roman period, they numbered more than 5,000
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