In Ancient Egypt scribes wrote with pictures called hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphics can be written in many directions. Hieroglyphics didn’t have punctuation. Hieroglyphics are hard to read and write, in fact, it took many years of training to learn how to read and write hieroglyphics. A goal for writing hieroglyphics was to make it pretty to look at, like art. Some scribes used a shorter version of writing that was called hieratic. Most Egyptians couldn’t write or read hieroglyphics.

The Egyptians legal system was based on common scenes.