Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

Richard Wordingham via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Thu Feb 13 15:15:18 CST 2020


On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:15:07 +0000
Shawn Steele via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> I confess that even though I know nothing about Hieroglyphs, that I
> find it fascinating that such a thoroughly dead script might still be
> living in some way, even if it's only a little bit.

Plenty of people have learnt how to write their name in hieroglyphs.
However, it is rare enough that my initials suffice to label my milk at
work.

What's more striking is the implication that people are still
exchanging messages in Middle Egyptian.

Richard.


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