hieroglyphs

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The house has a defective chimney, a historic beehive oven and even a hidden chamber decorated with hieroglyphs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Incoherent hieroglyphs plate the walls, plastic pharaohs stand guard in the check-in lane, and taxis idle under the haunches of a gargantuan Sphinx.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

She writes snatches of description and dialogue in her journal, but when she reads them later, her words jumble like hieroglyphs.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

There's also no bilingual artefact like the Rosetta Stone, which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

Starting around 1700 B.C., though, Semites familiar with Egyptian hieroglyphs did begin to experiment with that logical step.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond