What are the disadvantages and advantages of hieroglyphics?

Answer 1

The advantages of hieroglyphics is that written language could be passed down. The disadvantages were that papyrus decayed and stone walls were destroyed by time. The only reason that the hieroglyphics were deciphered is that the Rosetta Stone had the Greek language on the stone so we had a large enough sample to read the hieroglyphics.

Answer 2

the hieroglyphics is the alphabet using in ancient Egypt

Answer 3

Fast to write, hard to decode (see Pitman vs Greg).