- Papyrus
- Along the banks of the Nile River
- They cut the papyrus plant into thin strips, layered them in perpendicular directions, pressed them together, and let them dry to form sheets.
- Modern paper is still a flat, fibrous material used for writing and printing, though made from wood pulp or other materials instead of papyrus reeds.
- Hieroglyphics
- Hieroglyphics can be read left to right or right to left; the direction is determined by which way the animal or human figures are facing.
- The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BCE on behalf of King Ptolemy V. It was found in 1799 by French soldiers near the town of Rosetta (Rashid) in Egypt.
- The Rosetta Stone allowed scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics because it contained the same text in three scripts: Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs — enabling comparison and translation.
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