The art form, Hieroglyphics had a unique history. Hieroglyphics was represented using pictures or symbols. This way of writing was very old; it began at around 3000 BC. Hieroglyphics involved thousands of symbols. Some of the symbols represented sounds like our letters and other is represented in entire words. Hieroglyphics was different from how we write now. For example, it could be written in any direction. Also, the writing was meant to look like art and would be beautiful to look at. A picture or a symbol could stand for a whole word called an ideogram or a sound called a phonogram. For example, the symbol of an eye could represent the letter “I” or a person referring to himself or herself as “I”. Special people who knew the art form and
