Pocket History Hieroglyphics app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Education
Developer: MAD Learning
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 17 Dec 2010
App size: 3.07 Mb

Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood. Less formal variations of the script, called hieratic and demotic, are technically not hieroglyphs.

Pocket History Hieroglyphs gives you a tool to create your own Hieroglyphics writings. In addition you have access to:

~ the history of Hieroglyphics.
~ how Hieroglyphics were finally translated
~ Phonetic structure of Hieroglyphics
~ Uniliteral signs
~ The use of a Cartouche to create a Royal name