id: "Mero"
name: "Meroitic Hieroglyphs"
historical: true
family: "Middle Eastern"
summary: "Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a historical Middle Eastern logo-syllabary, written vertically right-to-left. Was used in 300 BCE–600 CE in today’s Sudan by the Kush (Meroë) people for the Meroitic language. Derived from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, used alongside Meroitic Cursive, and later Coptic."
