Cracking the ancient code of hieroglyphics was once considered one of the greatest feats of cryptology. |
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Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules. |
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The writing is enchorial, but of a form so closely allied to hieroglyphics that it shows how the one passes into the other. |
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Containing an official proclamation in several languages of the day, it was used by 19th and 20th century scholars to translate hieroglyphics. |
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Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics. |
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Linguistic or numerical listing was employed and the storage media were clay tablets, papyrus codices, leather scrolls or hieroglyphics. |
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Its surface was etched with carvings and hieroglyphics, dating back to the dawn of the world itself. |
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This was a key, just as Egyptian hieroglyphics could be deciphered only when the bilingual Rosetta Stone was found. |
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Gently, he turned over the scarab to reveal miniscule hieroglyphics on the back. |
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Thanks to these marvellous inventions, bookworms, and others do not have to wrestle with the intricacies of the hieroglyphics. |
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They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow. |
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We went from hieroglyphics to mimeographs to home computers, which allow us to mass mail letters that go something like this. |
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Their complex writing system, hieroglyphics, was considered virtually undecipherable for thousands of years. |
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But as electronic ear tags ease the need for old-fashioned, iron-seared symbols, cattle brands will once again become hieroglyphics. |
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It takes virtually no account of all that scholars have been able to learn about Egypt since the decipherment of hieroglyphics. |
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Logotypes and logograms push typography in the direction of hieroglyphics, which tend to be looked at rather than read. |
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I had aced the course in high school, so what were these hieroglyphics that the professor scribbled on the blackboard with such gusto? |
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The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics. |
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Perfumes used by the Egyptian pharaohs have been recreated using hieroglyphics and Napoleonic treasure. |
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Before then, the Mayans, who lived in present-day Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico, recorded hurricanes in their hieroglyphics. |
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He learnt hieroglyphics and Coptic and spent his vacations in the Louvre Museum studying its collections. |
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Inscribed by the priests of Ptolemy V, it contains the same text written in Greek and in hieroglyphics. |
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Egyptian writing began as pictographic and was later combined with sound signs to produce a difficult and complicated script that the Greeks called hieroglyphics. |
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Ratmansky and his wife Tatiana spent months trying to figure out its language of musical notes and squiggled hieroglyphics. |
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This is analogous to preserving the stone-chiselled hieroglyphics on Egyptian obelisks in the British Museum. |
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Since the days of cave painting and hieroglyphics images have been central to our desire to communicate. |
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The hieroglyphics in this shared room are not hard to read: openness, rhythm, imagination. |
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Just to understand the information that was there, and not some hieroglyphics and abbreviations provided by the previous physician. |
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Egyptian hieroglyphics are a good example of the way in which symbols can be used to convey intent or information. |
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Whereas hieroglyphics once had to be deciphered, now it's the turn of the seeds. |
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The pool is rectangle. There are 22 limestone block stones with hieroglyphics on a range of stone blocks. |
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Moreover the map of the subterranean water resources coincides with the distribution of the hieroglyphics. |
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Possibly these hieroglyphics marked the places where sources of water could be found to share this information with future generations. |
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Fascinated by Egyptian hieroglyphics, he studied it and introduced it into his work. |
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At parties held in his palace, Pharaoh asked his guests to build a pyramid-shaped figure with hieroglyphics carved on tablets. |
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The sad truth is that she's barely mentioned in the 3,000 years of effigies and hieroglyphics that cover the towering columns, needle-like obelisks and endless sarcophagi. |
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So far only one monumental statue of a Persian king has turned up, a statue of Darius discovered at Susa in 1972, decorated with hieroglyphics and cuneiform. |
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Some think that since the Egyptians were such a close, rigid society that they invented the form of writing called hieroglyphics, but that is simply not true. |
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Ancient Egyptians left behind a rich artistic heritage in the form of pyramids, pharaonic painting and sculpture, hieroglyphics, and architecture. |
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But of course the great intellectual barrier that Champollion had to overcome was this long-held assumption that hieroglyphics were just picture writing. |
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They looked a little like hieroglyphics, but a lot more complicated. |
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He starts out with fairly ordinary things, and then moves on to signing with noughts and crosses boards, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and you name it, really. |
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Wall paintings and mummified owl remains of have been discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs, and the owl motif was used in Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphics. |
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He has long chided his fellow economists for scrawling hieroglyphics on blackboards rather than looking at what it actually takes to run a business. |
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Famous stone discovered in 1799 in Egypt, which bears a triple inscription in hieroglyphics, which is located next to the correspondence in demotic and greek. |
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The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics and in enchorial letters, with a Greek translation. |
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Finally, the Rapanui also invented a form of writing that continues to puzzle experts: rongorongo, made up of refined hieroglyphics, was usually inscribed on wooden tablets. |
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Riley incorporated many elements of this art style on the chair, including hieroglyphics and ankhs. |
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Enrolled students were highly motivated and eager to learn hieroglyphics. |
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By the flickering light of torches you can see that the walls of the passageway are beautifully painted with Egyptian gods, ancient pharaohs and hieroglyphics. |
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While it is true that Champollion deciphered hieroglyphics in the 1820s, his results were not accepted by German classicists for another 30 years. |
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Without the ESG Standards, electronic transactions between companies would be somewhat akin to trying to decipher and make sense of Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
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In his presentation, he cited ancient hieroglyphics, the Codex and Guttenberg's invention of the printing press, making his view of the Kindle's world-historical significance perfectly clear. |
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Create a Scarab beetle pin, write your name in hieroglyphics and craft your own cartouche. |
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We made death masks, Egyptian scrolls and canopic jars, decorated with hieroglyphics. |
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Incise figure with geometric patterns, hieroglyphics, and symbols. |
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Moreover, Rillieux left Louisiana in 1854 and went to France, where he spent ten years working with the Champollions deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone. |
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A cartouche, or inscribed hieroglyphics tablet, bearing the name of the fabled Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra was found, the first discovered in Luxor. |
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Samuel Birch, and other leading Egyptologists of his day, even learning hieroglyphics at the time the Temple of Horus at Edfu was first being excavated. |
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Inside the temple, a mesmerising stone forest of 134 Hypostyle columns, their surfaces inscribed in swathes of ancient hieroglyphics, claw at a powder blue sky. |
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The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature. |
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This is the secret of Hegel, and the key to his hieroglyphics, and, if consistently used to interpret the sayings of his logic, it becomes an open book. |
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