Short Description of Hieroglyphs for Visual Display

Hieroglyphs were the Egyptians form of written language. They were a number of pictures that were used to represent a sound, syllable, determinative, or even an entire word, similar to the way our letters represent different sounds. Interestingly, although the exact pronunciation of ancient Egyptian words is unknown, so one can not be certain if there was in fact an omission, it is believed that often times words were written omitting the vowel(s). The constraints of the language seem to have been rather liberal, and often gave way to the potential aesthetics. Hieroglyphics would, most com…