
Homer

Dante Alighieri

William Shakespeare

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leo Tolstoy

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen

James Joyce

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Virginia Woolf

Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs are ancient symbols used in Egyptian writing to represent sounds, objects, and ideas. They were used in ancient Egypt from around 3100 BCE until the end of the 4th century CE.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters, used in written Chinese for over 3,000 years, are logograms that represent words or morphemes and are integral to one of the world’s oldest continuous writing systems.
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