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What direction do you read hieroglyphics?

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Hieroglyhs can be read in many directions. They can be read from left to right or right to left. Whichever direction the animals are facing you read he opposite. If they are facing to the left, then you read left to right. If they are facing right you read right to left.

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The relatively small number of people who could read in ancient Egypt could read from right to left, or left to right, or from the top of a register vertically downwards.

The direction of text was often determined by the available space, or the design of a scene to be illustrated on a wall or piece of sculpture or furniture. Above a doorway the same text could be written starting in the middle above the door, then reading in opposite directions and then down each side. On ushabti figures and coffin lids, text often starts under the chin and reads vertically downwards.

Right to left was the most common direction, but not the only one.

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In whichever direction the little animal and people drawings are pointing.

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right to left, top to bottom

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