📚 Hieroglyphic, noun. 🔉 /hʌɪrəˈɡlɪfɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (hieroglyphics): Writing consisting of hieroglyphs. ❗️ Examples: 1. Without the Rosetta Stone, it is likely that Egyptian hieroglyphics would still be a mystery. 2. But of course the great intellectual barrier that Champollion had to overcome was this long-held assumption that hieroglyphics were just picture writing. 3. Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics. 4. Some think that since the Egyptians were such a close, rigid society that they invented the form of writing called hieroglyphics, but that is simply not true. 5. This was well before the discoveries which were used to argue a universal Stone Age for humanity, and before the decipherment of ancient scripts such as hieroglyphics and cuneiform. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic