[moose07]

Wonder how much their writing altered over time.
Chiselling out all those pictures would be such a drag, you'd think it would have evolved into some form of lettering after all those years.

" "Royal seal bearer". "
What a heavy, smelly, horrible job. :)

[Fai Mao]

Later on there was sort of a cursive form of Egyptian. It is one of the three languages on the Rosetta Stone

[SunkenCiv]

In addition to their indigenous writing systems, the Egyptians also used cuneiform, which was the internationally used writing system for diplomatic correspondence.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian_hieratic.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian_demotic.htm

[wildbill]

Your post made me wonder how they did the long walls of hieroglyphs. Did one guy do the whole thing or did they use several guys working on the message at once.

One guy with a chisel could take a long long time.