HIEROGLYPHICS

the namo given to the figures of men, animal a, etc., which were sonlptured upon monuments by the early Egyptians, and dealined to expro ideas, words, or sounds, ice represent a stace in the history of ting which preceded the use of an alphabet of conventional symbols. Ship Lowe are not confined to monuments, but hare been found on documents, and have also been discovered ontside t, notably upon the monuments by the Aztecs. The first translation of Byptian hieroglyphics was made at the end of the 18th century, when a stone, since known as the Rosetta stone, was found, which Coane en pa bon in hiecrogiyphics, and in on ations In two other styles, one of them written in Greek characters. [s. 171]