ocr: Hieroglyphs At the time that the pyramids were built at Giza, Ancient Egyptians wrote with more than 800 signs called hieroglyphs. Some hieroglyphs represent as sounds, such latieer DA 1 4 melr n - as the letter "b," -" and other hieroglyphs MMMI represent words, such basket." When Ancient Egyptians spelled a word, they did not write most of the vowels. If English followed the same rules as Egyptian writing, "dog" would be spelled "dg." In addition, Egyptians thought it was more important to make a phrase look good than to spell it correctly. See Also: Hieroglyphs can be written from top to Hi ...