WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The ancient Egyptians used the distinctive script known today as hieroglyphs (Greek for “sacred words") for almost 4, 000 years. Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus, carved in stone on tomb and temple walls, and used to decorate many objects of cultic and daily life use.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hieroglyphs take the form of pictures, each representing an entire word, syllable, or phoneme (the units of sound from which spoken language is built). The Ancient Egyptians referred to these scripts as “the gods’ words”, a phrase translated by the Ancient Greeks as “sacred carvings”, which gives us “hieroglyphics”.