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LESSON 7 · Mysteries of the Nile

PAUSE TO THINK

What did the ancient Egyptians call their own hieroglyphic writing?

Medu netjer — 'the words of the god.'

The Egyptians saw their script as sacred and divinely given. Our word 'hieroglyphics' comes from the later Greek for 'sacred carvings,' echoing that same idea from the outside.

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