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That hieroglyphs and logographs sometimes contain significant visual elements--mnemonic aids to jog the memory and set the synapses swinging--is icing on the cake.
Best of all is a sequence in which Moses falls asleep against the wall of a temple and, in his dream, the two-dimensional hieroglyphs of familiar Egyptian painting begin to move, enacting the story of the Exodus in stiff, horizontal processions.
Athanasius Kircher's (1602-1680) and Joseph de Guignes' (1721-1800) fanciful descriptions of Chinese signs and Egyptian hieroglyphs gave birth to the notion that these writing systems could somehow circumvent pedestrian alphabets, going as it were straight to the heart of things.
First and foremost, hieroglyphs and logographs are read as sounds, not symbols, as my seven-year foray into Chinese has taught me.
It heralded the first great phase of development in science and architecture; hieroglyphs were developed and the first great building phase took place.