After some 20 years of detailed research, Professor Whittaker has discovered that, like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Aztec writing system could be used not just to convey a limited number of ...

In the 4 th century, the hieroglyphic system was actually "on its last legs," he added. The language it encodes, ancient Egyptian, had not been spoken for a long time in the country, where people ...

Similarly, Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious ...