WONDER #700: What Are Hieroglyphs?

Question 1 of 3

In ancient Egypt, the people who wrote with hieroglyphs were called what?

1. scribes
2. teachers
3. pharaohs
4. alphabeticians

Question 2 of 3

Whose troops discovered the Rosetta Stone when invading Egypt in 1799?

1. Nero
2. Shakespeare
3. Napoleon
4. King Tut

Question 3 of 3

In ancient Egyptian writing, phonetic glyphs act like what?

1. pictures
2. logographs
3. prefixes
4. alphabet letters

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