10 facts of Hieroglyphics

1. Hieroglyphics it's kind of drawing so it could be in the art.
2.Cartouche is a royal people names written by hieroglyphics on a bullet-shaped oval.
3.In 1799, a French soldier found Rossetta stone. Rossetta stone was a key to solve hieroglyphics because it has written on hieroglyphics, demotic and ancient Greek.
4.Hieroglyphics have become popular in the years since the first tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs were discovered.
5.This system was started 3000BC ago but people lost the ability to write and read hieroglyphics in AD 392.
6.It has no vowels and no space or punctuation.
7.Hieroglyphics actually means 'picture writing' in ancient greek.
8.They could be read either left to right or right to left and both vertically in rows and horizontally in columns.
9. Only boys was thaught to read and write and at first they scratched messages on broken pieces on limestone pottery. Once they could write they wrote in sheets of papyrus as paper
10.There are 700 words in hieroglyphics.