The following provides a brief introduction to one of the world's most mysterious languages. It is a language of the gods to the Egyptians and is to this day something that no one has heard since it dissappeared many centuries ago with the death of the last scribes who knew its secrets. It is a language that can be written for effect - either from left to right, right to left, vertically or horizontally. It is a written language without vowels.

  

Click here to hear about the hieroglyphs; sound taken from Mummies and the Wonders of Ancient Egypt
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