why are hieroglyphs written in any direction?

Question

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Answer 1

Hierogyphs are written in any way because the ancient egyptains didn't care if there were writing a sentence or not! they need visual understanding of things so they made up symbols or i think they got it from the Atlantians... well the hieroglyphs were decoded by a frenchmen and he put Alapabets infront and behind the hierglyphs and made names like aknaton and Giza... this isn't ture because he clearly didn't study it and we can be interpting the hieroglyphs wrongly... Study the french dude who decoded it he just came up with Ms and Ss and Ts with the symbols that to me is English and French not Ancient egpytain language...

Answer 2

Because the hieroglyphic writing was artwork, so it had to have symmetry on architecture to be complimentary with architecture.

It was only written in 3 ways, left to right, or right to left, or top to bottom. As far as I know never bottom to top.

So sometimes on lintels we see the start of the writing over a doorway and the writing proceeds right to left on the left and left to right on the right.

Recommended reference: "Egyptian Hieroglyphic Decipherment Revealed" Leonardi 2013.

Answer 3

Becuase the egyptians believed that somehow writing in a particular direction made something happen.It is usually written from Right to Left.

Answer 4

Heiroglyphs were made to fit onto any surface, to fit around images, like the text in a comic book. Words in heirglyphs could be spelt out in very long forms or in abbreviated ways- this helped the carvers to fit them into the the narrow columns you often see. Egyptians tended to write right to left - modern books teaching glyphs use the left to right way because thats how people read nowadays. Actual egyptian monuments are mostly always right to left. Thats just how they did things.

Answer 5

Don't know.