hieroglyphs
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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
The exterior is covered in hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid shaped entrance.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
What initially appears abstract contains hidden images: Wild creatures and undecipherable hieroglyphs lurk in the paint.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Champollion also had the presence of mind to count up the number of Greek words and the number of individual hieroglyphs in what were presumably equivalent texts.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
