埃及象形文字是世界上最古老的书写系统之一。象形文字与苏美尔楔形文字的不同之处，就是象形文字的起源更鲜为人知。人们认为象形文字是神衹托特发明的，因此每个字都是具有魔力的强大符号。“象形文字”在埃及文中，意为“神的文字或话语”。
Pictograms are highly stylized and simplified pictures of material objects. Examples of pictograms include 日 rì for "sun", 月 yuè for "moon", and 木 mù for "tree" or "wood". Though few in number and expressing literal objects, pictograms and ideograms are nonetheless the basis on which all the more complex characters such as associative compound characters and phono-semantic characters are formed.
神秘符号博物馆
The Museum of Mysterious Symbols
