The next quotation comes from Jean-Francois Cham-pollion, 1790-1832, the man who originally deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphic system.

Unlike the Tibetan language, the Baima dialect ordinarily does not use a written script, although a hieroglyphic system is used in religious practice.

By late 1886, only seven signs had been deciphered out of the totality of signs belonging to the hieroglyphic system.

It may be that the conquests of Scorpion started the Egyptian hieroglyphic system by starting a need to keep records in writing.

"All known hieroglyphic systems in the world relate to pre-existing iconography or codified symbolism", and therefore it is not surprising that the Cascajal glyphs appear in other contexts as motifs.

"The script may itself descend from an Olmec hieroglyphic system, but too little of the Olmec script has been recorded to confirm or disprove a connection," they wrote.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic system ruled the world of writing then, you see.

From these and other discoveries, archeologists have gathered important information about the development of Mayan religion, trade and hieroglyphic writing systems from A.D. 250 to A.D. 900.

I was an expert on cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing systems by the age of twenty.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic system, as used in inscriptions, continued without any essential change of character until Roman times, though various systems of hieratic modification were used at different times.