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My understanding is that hieroglyphics can be read and written in either direction, and that the animal characters in particular give it away, if they're face r
by rvense 4y ago
My understanding is that hieroglyphics can be read and written in either direction, and that the animal characters in particular give it away, if they're face right you read from the right and vice versa.
- Tuna-Fish 4y agoYes, and there are some inscriptions where this is used, for example in "speech bubbles", where two figures facing each other on a wall talk to each other, with the texts flowing in different directions.