Middle Kingdom, Hieroglyphics

The Egyptians were among the earliest people to use writing. They used pictures to write with, we call those hieroglyphs. Each picture stood for a certain word. Egyptians used to carve these into stone tablets but couple of hundred years later they learned how to make paper out of reeds (what's a "reed"? - look it up!). We called this special paper papyrus.

Hieroglyphics song: