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Manuel de Codage

Okay kiddo, do you know what coding is? It’s like a big puzzle where you give the computer instructions on what to do. Manuel de Codage is a special way of coding that was used a long time ago to write down ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Think of the hieroglyphs as pictures that tell a story. The Manuel de Codage system used letters and numbers to represent all the different hieroglyphs. This made it easier for people to type them out on a computer or to send them over the internet.

For example, the hieroglyph for a bird could be represented by the letter “A”, while the hieroglyph for a snake could be represented by “V”. When people wanted to write a sentence in hieroglyphs using Manuel de Codage, they would type out the corresponding letters and numbers for each hieroglyph they needed.

Even though we have newer and more advanced systems for coding hieroglyphs now, Manuel de Codage is still important because it helped scholars and researchers unlock the secrets of ancient Egyptian writing.