If I remember what I learned in Egyptology class, this is actually not entirely true. Although pure phonetic writing was possible, in actual practice hieroglyp

If I remember what I learned in Egyptology class, this is actually not entirely true. Although pure phonetic writing was possible, in actual practice hieroglyphs were a mixed system wherein individual hieroglyphs were sometimes treated as pictograms in order to give additional contextual meaning to a phonetically spelled word.