First is to make the study of cursive Egyptian script more attainable.

"It appears to be a book about death, though of course, no one can read the ancient Egyptian script."

He said that "even my colleagues who work on Sumerians" were beginning to accept the primacy of the Egyptian script as true writing.

The issues of Artaxerxes are recognisable as such because his name appears on the reverse in a local Egyptian script.

The corresponding name in the Egyptian script appears to be ʕpr.

It is thought by some researchers that the original source of this script was the Egyptian hieratic script.

Then, towards the end of the fourth century AD, within a generation, the Egyptian scripts vanished.

The decipherment of the Egyptian script was underway.

Black Egyptian script is also written on the reverse side of this letter, (in the open space remaining).

There were no vowels in the Egyptian script.