In what direction are ancient egyptian hieroglyphs read?

Question

For example, in english you read from left to right. Is it the same with ancient egyptian??

Answer 1

Left to right, right to left, up and down. " if all the animals are facing right, it should be read from right to left. If all the animals are facing left, it should be read from left to right...Sometimes there are two or more pictures on top of one another. If this happens, the top picture is always read before the bottom."

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/egypt/hiero2...

Answer 2

up to down left to right

Answer 3

right to left and up to down they used the papyrus as a paper

and their script called by mumi

Answer 4

Most of them were meant to be read from left to right, but a late deconstructionist movement around 2500 BC saw the advent of mieroglyphs, or mirror image hieroglyphs meant to be read from the inside out.