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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by rvense on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:11AM (#35652129)
My understanding is that hieroglyphics can be read and written in either direction, and that the animal characters in particular give it away, if they're face right you read from the right and vice versa.
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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by Tuna-Fish on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:56AM (#35652422)
Yes, and there are some inscriptions where this is used, for example in "speech bubbles", where two figures facing each other on a wall talk to each other, with the texts flowing in different directions.
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