... to the post Egyptian empires and modern day living. They contributed paper, written alphabet, plumbing, and burial practices, laws on morality, paper, and written history. With these contributions we have been able to carry on everyday life with more ease; than if we did not have them. The Egyptians contributed burial ... invented the way of writing called pictograph or hieroglyphs. Each letter of the alphabet, word, or phrase depicted an object such as, a river, an owl, a hawk, or a snake. Vowels were rarely used and those pictures that were translated into vowels were used as consonant...

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• Grade Level: High School