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Yes. Recent studies show that they did. Old ideas suggested that the Egyptians may have gotten ideas from the Sumerians, but Egyptian texts have been found that were older than the first Sumerian texts.

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Yes Hieroglyphics were the first form of writing because it was what all forms of writing started.

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The first kind was with the Egyptians. The first cave paintings were with the cave me.

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No, cuneiform is older.

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