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Egyptian scripts were replaced with Coptic, which
included six demotic characters. In the ninth century,
• After Coptic became the prominent script, it was
Arab scholar Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Wahshiyah was able
replaced by Arabic, which resulted in breaking
to partly decipher the hieroglyphs by comparing them to
society's connection to ancient times.
Coptic. But in the eleventh century, it too was replaced,
For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of
by Arabic. The link was once again severed. For
different languages tried to figure out the meaning of
centuries, Western scholars tried to decipher the
hieroglyphs.
hieroglyphs, with little success. They were working
Hieroglyphs are letters, not symbols representing
under a false hypothesis, that the hieroglyphs were
whole idea, which many scholars throughout history
pictograms, with each symbol representing an object or
were not aware of.
an idea.
For a long time, scholars from different places tried to
figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs, but they
mistakenly believed each hieroglyph was a symbol.
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