At first, Egyptians used symbols to represent objects or ideas – what were these symbols called? Pictographs – means “picture writing”

What do you call a picture that represents something?

Emblem “An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person” “a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol commonly used by …

What called hieroglyphics?

A hieroglyph (Greek for “sacred carvings”) was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called “hieroglyphs”.