The write direction (was: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of

Raymond A. Brown scripsit:

> None of my sources make it at all clear whether the early hieroglyphic
> columns started from the right (as in Chinese and Sumerian) or the left.
AFAIK it was often symmetric: RTL columns on the right side of the
writing space, LTR columns on the left; i.e. "writing inwards".

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