> Ironically, hieroglyphs evolved over time into phonetic meanings. No, they didn't. The original creators of hieroglyphs knew how to use them to spell phoneti

> Ironically, hieroglyphs evolved over time into phonetic meanings. No, they didn't. The original creators of hieroglyphs knew how to use them to spell phonetically, but they didn't do it that often, they were satisfied with the old system (just as Chinese are now). It was a job of other people, who actually didn't know how to use hieroglyphs properly, to build a functioning alphabet on top of them. Two systems coexisted for some time, and then hieroglyphs went into decline with the whole culture that supported them.