Explain the system of writing used by the ancient Egyptians and briefly discuss the key to its deciphering in modern times

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1. From the fourth millennium BCE until 30 BCE, the hieroglyphic system used by the ancient Egyptians changed remarkably little, though the number of signs in use increased from 700 to nearly 5,000.
2. The system consists of three kinds of signs: pictograms, or stylized drawings that represent objects or beings, which can be combined to express ideas; phonograms, which are pictograms used to represent sounds; and determinatives, signs used to indicate which category of objects or beings is in question.
3. The Rosetta Stone, found in a town in the Egyptian Delta in 1799, repeated a single decree from Ptolemy V in in two different languages and three separate scripts—Greek, demotic Egyptian, and hieroglyphs. The stone provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphs.