Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas ... The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics, and Chinese characters built the written language ...
L 15.5, W 5.5. Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum. 2017.31.335 As the curators acknowledge, hieroglyphics and emoji have vastly different roots.
The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern English alphabet. It is not exactly the same because the ancient Egyptians did not have symbols for vowels (‘a’, ‘e ...