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TIL ancient Egyptians didn't use Hieroglyphics as an everyday writing system. They reserved this for special functions. The Egyptians used two script-like writing systems called Hieratic and Demotic. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pewg7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought we were naming random words we had just read