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| The most exquisite script ever invented |
'Hieroglyphs were the most exquisite script ever invented by
man, Anson Hunter reflected, miniature monuments, both concrete and ethereal, designed to
stand for eternity.
Gods,
birds, eyes, mouths, feathers…
Hieroglyphs possessed a peculiar resonance with
magical power, the Egyptians believed, which was why Books of the Dead and
other funerary texts were invariably written in hieroglyphs rather than in
hieratic or demotic scripts...'
