The Egyptian writing system known as hieroglyphics was
a. a wedged shaped writing system.
b. a form of picture writing in which figures such as crocodiles, sails, eyes, and so forth represented words or sounds that could be combined to form words.
c. the world's first writing system.
d. the only writing system of the earliest civilized societies.
e. borrowed by the Sumerians.
b
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