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

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

Of all the citizens of Heliopolis, I have been chosen to draw the hieroglyphs that will be inscribed on the four sides of the obelisk!

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman