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Which of these best describes hieroglyphics?

Hieroglyphics were pictorial representations of information.
Hieroglyphics were only used by Egyptians.
Hieroglyphics only represented numerals.
Hieroglyphics were used only by artists and historians.

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User Dampee
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Hieroglyphics were pictorial representations of information.

Step-by-step explanation:

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet. Through the Phoenician alphabet's major child systems, the Greek and Aramaic scripts, the Egyptian hieroglyphic script is ancestral to the majority of scripts in modern use, most prominently the Latin and Cyrillic scripts and the Arabic script and Brahmic family of scripts.

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User Drexin
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Hieroglyphics were pictorial representations of information.
Hope this helps ;D
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