For thousands of years, hieroglyphs was the written system that the Ancient Egyptians used to express their feelings, emotion, love, and hatred. They use them to declare war and to make peace, and they use them to boast of their military conquest, these pictures that were inscribed on temple walls and tomb walls and written on papyrus, encapsulated everything that made them who they were as ancient Egyptians. Listen to find out more. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://ancientegyptianhistory.wordpress.com/2022/01/28/when-and-how-did-egyptian-stop-being-the-dominant-language-of-egypt/