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	What did the Egyptians write with?
	Did the Egyptians have an alphabet?

		Our word "paper" comes from the Egyptian "papyrus". Papyrus is a plant that grows in the Nile Delta. The plant has thin stalks that are slit down the middle and flattened out to make a very durable paper. Egyptian writing is made up of pictures, each of which is called a "hieroglyph". Hieroglyphs are pictures of animals, people, buildings, tools, food, and other things which were familiar to the Egyptians. Egyptian writing is called "hieroglyphics", although the language itself is simply called "ancient Egyptian". more