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The Egyptians developed their own writing system — elaborate pictorial symbols we call hieroglyphs.
By around 3200 BCE, the Egyptians had created a sophisticated writing system using hundreds of pictorial signs. Unlike Mesopotamian cuneiform pressed into clay, hieroglyphs were carved into stone and painted on papyrus. The system combined logographic and alphabetic elements, and its decipherment via the Rosetta Stone in 1822 CE unlocked millennia of Egyptian history.
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