How Did Ancient Egypt Use Hieroglyphs?

Thousands of years ago in Egypt, this paper would only be understood by a few people professionally trained to read and write hieroglyphs. Only wealthy children in ancient Egypt were taught to read and write, and the language was kept complicated so that they were the only ones that could understand. Hieroglyphics are a very intricate system of writing that was very complex, was only mastered by scribes, and there are many interesting hieroglyphic discoveries in history.
The Egyptians invented hieroglyphs because they wanted their beliefs, their values, their religion, and their way of life to be passed down from generation to generation, and they thought the best way to do that was through writing (UkuleleCari). Egyptian mythology was passed down orally, but they needed a way to keep track of expenses and simple facts of trade more easily, so a written language became necessary (Wimmer 343). The first hieroglyphs were just labels for individual things such as names of people, contents in jars, and tombs. Eventually, hieroglyphs were used on a lot of things, including monuments, temples, and religious scrolls.(Hart, 34) Beetles or scarabs were usually carved on top of stamps. The

Instead the language was a combination of words and letters. The alphabet was divided into two different categories, phonograms and ideograms. Ideograms represented whole words while phonograms represented the letters to spell out the different sounds of the words.(UkuleleCari) Ideograms either represented an object or something related to the object. For example the hieroglyph for legs could also represent movement, and when they were combined with other hieroglyphs, it could represent concepts like “approach” or “give directions.” (Guisepi, 7) Phonograms represented a sound in a word. (Guisepi,