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Hieroglyph
(Greek ?e?????f?? "sacred carving") or hieroglyphics
( = t? ?e?????f??? [???µµata]) may refer to:
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Cursive hieroglyphs
- Dongba script
- more generally, a character of any logographic or partly logographic writing system.
- Cretan hieroglyphs
- Anatolian hieroglyphs
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Mayan hieroglyphs
- Olmec hieroglyphs
- Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing
- a Chinese character
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HIEROGLYPHICS TICKETS
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Origin
"Hieroglyphs" refer to the characters made by graphical figures, be it animals or objects.
The characters that are relatively old seem to originate from
Sumer or
Elam in
Mesopotamia. The hieroglyphs that were originally used for recording agricultural products and handicrafts led to the birth of linear and
cuneiform script, widely used by the
Sumerians,
Assyrians and
Babylonians. 5000 years ago, Ancient Egyptians had started to use other Hieroglyphs in a separate way. The features that are visually well arranged about heavenly bodies, natural phenomena, animals and plants, God, humans, residences and households were used for 3000 years for recording Egyptian. Ancient
Greeks called this system Hieroglyphs, literally "sacred writings", because it was mainly used by government officials for God.
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