Some used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics.

一些族群使用图形进行书写被称作象形字。

This meant that the Egyptians had thousands of different hieroglyphs representing all sorts of things.

这就意味着埃及人有成千上不同的象形字，代表各种事物。

In fact, it is one of the oldest forms of writing in the world.

事实上，象形字是世界上最古老的书写形式之一。

The minutely detailed embroidery on his jacket can be read just like hieroglyphics.

他的外套上的精细刺绣可以当作象形字阅读。

They gained immortality in frescos, hieroglyphs, statues, and even tombs, mummified alongside their owners.

它们被塑造成不朽的壁画、象形字、雕像、甚至还有墓地，和他们的主人一起成木乃伊。

Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means " pictogram" or " pictograph."

“emoji”实际上是日语词汇“絵字”，意“图案字”或“象形字”。

Below that, a pictograph may mark the sighting of Hailey's Comet in 1066.

其下方的象形字则可能记录的是1066年哈雷彗星经过地球的景象。

The deer glyph came from the same Las Pinturas pyramid.

鹿的象形字来自同一皮图字塔。

Doctors are famous for writing prescriptions that look like gobbledygook or ancient hieroglyphics.

医生的处方笔记看起来像天书，或是古代的象形字。

It wasn't anything like as easy for the ancient Egyptians with their hieroglyphs.

古埃及人的象形字可没有这么简单。

The mystery of why there were two coffins was solved relatively easily when archaeologists translated the hieroglyphics.

当考古学家翻译这些象形字时，什么有两具棺材的谜团就相对容易地解开了。

There are estimated to be only 3 pictographic languages still in use in the world today.

至今，全球各地只有大概三种象形字还存在着。

They aren't pictures, they are hieroglyphs - or 'sacred signs' - the Egyptian form of writing.

它们不是图画，它们是象形字--或" 神圣的符号" --古埃及人的书写形式。

The Mayans had a system of 800 glyphs.

玛雅人有800象形字系统。

After a time, he recognized that the hieroglyphs were symbols for the sound of the Egyptian language.

一段时间之后，他意识到象形字是埃及语言发音的象征。

In pictograph characters like “Tian”, meaning farm, simple lines were used to outline the shape of something.

在像象形字中，（如“田”字，代表农场）是用简单的线条来勾勒某物的形状。

And the oldest of these three is the Naxi languag written in a beautiful script of ancient hieroglyphs.

而在这三种字以内，最古老的就是纳西语，用精美的古代象形字书写。

The innovation of the hieroglyphic writing system and the emergence of Memphis as the new seat of power.

象形字系统的革新以及孟菲市作新的权力中心的出现。

Ancient Egyptians even had a hieroglyphic symbol for meteoric iron, which translates literally to " metal of the sky."

古埃及人甚至有一象形字符号代表陨铁，字面意思是“来自天空的属”。

We've already talked about a sandal label of an Egyptian pharaoh that had early writing on it, in hieroglyphs.

我们已经谈到埃及法老早期以象形字做成的凉鞋标签。