This is a stela
Myth: Ancient Egyptians wrote and read hieroglyphs.
Fact: 99% of the population could not read or write.
The symbols at the top of this picture are hieroglyphs. I cannot read them as I am just an ordinary man.
I did not go to school. Only scribes could read and write.
These are pictures that represent words or parts of words. You see them on tombs and temples. Hieroglyph means 'sacred carved (signs)'. The writing system was used from late in the 4th millennium BC until the 4th century AD.
A tombstone or other stone. It was usually carved with the name of the owner, or with some writing celebrating an event.