| Their complex writing system, hieroglyphics, was considered virtually undecipherable for thousands of years. |
| Containing an official proclamation in several languages of the day, it was used by 19th and 20th century scholars to translate hieroglyphics. |
| They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow. |
| Gently, he turned over the scarab to reveal miniscule hieroglyphics on the back. |
| We went from hieroglyphics to mimeographs to home computers, which allow us to mass mail letters that go something like this. |
| The writing is enchorial, but of a form so closely allied to hieroglyphics that it shows how the one passes into the other. |
