Hieroglyphics is the name we give to Egyptian symbol writing. ThePhoenicians invented their own simplified writing system based onalphabetic symbols which represented sounds. This simplifiedwriting and was copied and modified by the Greeks and Romans, andforms the basis of today’s alphabets.

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