Sentences with phrase «hieroglyphic writing system»
The development of papyrus with the hieroglyphic writing system contributed to the development of Egypt as one of the superpowers of the ancient world.
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The Maya studied astronomy, composed music and wrote scroll - like books, or «codices,» in elegant hieroglyphics, the most advanced writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.
They developed astronomy, hieroglyphic writing and a complex calendrical system.
Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.