The word hieroglyph comes from Greek roots are µÁÌ ( hierós, " sacred "? ) «and ³» ÍƵ¹½ ( glýfein, " record " ).The Egyptian expression for hieroglyphic transliterates mdu n r, transcribed as medu necher, which means divine words.?Hieroglífico or hieroglyphics are sinónimo:este is a complex system, a figurative, symbolic and phonetic, writing at the same time in a single text, a sentence, I would almost say in a Word.This writing system was invented by the ancient Egyptians to communicate and used from the predynastic era to the 4th century. The ancient Egyptians used three basic types of writing: hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic; the latter corresponds to the late period of Egipto.Este writing system is decrypted with the texts contained in the Rosetta Stone, which was found in 1799, in which this recorded a decree three types of writing: hieroglyphic, Demótica and Greek Uncial.En the year 1822 Jean-François Champollion succeeded in deciphering this medódo with the help primarily of research by Thomas Young, among others.By extension, also gave the name of hieroglyphic sign to some of the graphemes of the cuneiform and other. The reason is that those few signs would not use the phonetic principle, but the ideográfico principle of representation of the script.