Egyptians had more than one language. They created hieroglyphics, the famous markings often written on Egyptian pyramid and tomb walls. They had spoken and written languages too. Old Egyptian was...
The earliest Egyptian writing was in two forms: the well-known pictographs of hieroglyphics and the informal cursive script known as hieratic.
hieroglyphics
The Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphs. These look like little pictures or symbols. It took historians a long time to be able to read it.