hieroglyphs
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Possible precedents flicker: Maya hieroglyphs, Buddhist mandalas, Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts, Bosch, Gauguin, feathered Trinidadian carnival masks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The bird has featured in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and is one of the only birds of prey known to use tools when hunting.
From BBC ● May 8, 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
Champollion resisted the idea of hieroglyphs as pictorial metaphors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
