"The beginnings of hieroglyphic writing date back to the birth of ancient Egypt. It was in this period that a series of figurative signs first appeared, mostly depicting animals."
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The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
