How To Use Hieroglyphic In A Sentence

Dated 196 B.C., the stone is engraved with Greek and hieroglyphic texts that enabled scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian writing.
The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
Khem was considered the generating influence of the sun, whence perhaps the reason of his being connected with Amen-Ra: and in one of the hieroglyphic legends accompanying his name he is styled the sun; that is the pro-creating power of the only source of warmth, which assists in the continuation of the various created species. The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion

I had aced the course in high school, so what were these hieroglyphics that the professor scribbled on the blackboard with such gusto?
The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.
Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
This object is described in hieroglyphic dictionaries as a "cake," and it certainly does resemble a kind of hot cross-bun frequently represented in pictures of offerings; but the sign (pronounced nu) is really intended for a walled town, with Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Logotypes and logograms push typography in the direction of hieroglyphics, which tend to be looked at rather than read.
The writing is enchorial, but of a form so closely allied to hieroglyphics that it shows how the one passes into the other.
The carved inscriptions on the Stone included hieroglyphics - the written language of ancient Egypt - and Greek, which was readily understood.
Today, brilliant work by a small band of epigraphers, has resulted in Maya hieroglyphic texts - once dismissed as indecipherable - becoming understood well enough to yield some narrative history.
In general the books represent a carryover from the hieroglyphic codices in which the Maya recorded historical events and matters of religion, art, astronomy and the like. The Books of Chilam Balam - part one
Over his shoulders, clasped at the neck with a large gold-and-precious-stone buckle of the same mysterious form as the hieroglyphic crest at the head of the Programs, he wore a wonderful burnouse of white and gold fleece, the gold predominating over the white, and flashing fiercely, gorgeously in the sun. The Mark of the Beast
It wasn't Greek, it wasn't Sanskrit, it wasn't hieroglyphics. SACRAMENT
By mastering hieroglyphics , Champollion unlocked a mystery and brought back to life one of the world's oldest and most fascinating civilization.
Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple
This was well before the discoveries which were used to argue a universal Stone Age for humanity, and before the decipherment of ancient scripts such as hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
It takes virtually no account of all that scholars have been able to learn about Egypt since the decipherment of hieroglyphics.
The hieroglyphic texts name the figures, artists and dates of commemorated events.
For hundreds of years, from the Spanish conquest onward, Maya hieroglyphic writing was a mystery to those attempting to read it.
The Maya made paper from the bark of trees, and archaeologists have found various codices - articles written in hieroglyphics with drawings - that escaped burning by the Spanish.
Fancy a pagne or skirt all formed of little strips of material bedizened with red and black hieroglyphics, stiffened with bitumen, and apparently belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy.
For the hieroglyphics, why not include a "cartouche" I don't know the English translation with Nefertari's name? Covers, Egyptian Style
Having first described the Stabl Antar, he says: – In another grotto I found twice over the name of the city written in hieroglyphic characters, Çi-ou-t. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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.
But as electronic ear tags ease the need for old-fashioned, iron-seared symbols, cattle brands will once again become hieroglyphics.
Over the ears of this beast of heavy burden is engraved in hieroglyphic characters, "The great ass that carries his wife; Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
After many years of study, experts were eventually able to translate all the hieroglyphic symbols.
Serabit Al-Khadem is known not for the Temple of Hathor and the turquoise mines alone, but also because it was here that a mysterious script was found, a script that resembles hieroglyphics and appears to have evolved in Sinai.
It may even be true that some recent Maya epigraphers have at times been somewhat carried away in their boundless enthusiasm over the decipherment of yet another hieroglyphic symbol to add to the growing list of successful and verifiable readings. Primary sources of Maya history - part five
The learned adhere closely to their hieroglyphical writing, representing every word by its corresponding picture.
The semantic valence attributed to a hieroglyphic language is two-edged.
This is a spectacular building full of halls and passageways with walls covered in colourful friezes and hieroglyphics, while brooding granite statues of falcons guard the entrance doors.
Viral letter-forms and hieroglyphic-like symbols bounce around the galleries from a Lee Krasner to an Adolf Gottleib, to a David Smith sculpture. Cat Weaver: Art as Curation: The (New) AB EX Story at MoMA
And very many of the Egyptian books are written in this kind of broken-down hieroglyphic, which is called "hieratic," or priestly writing. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.
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.
The Arabs, I have said, took the flag or water leaf form and departed very far from the Egyptian original (we know from Plutarch that the hieroglyphic abecedarium began with "a"), which was chosen by other imitators, namely the bull's head, and which in the cursive form, especially the Arabian nights. English
Inscribed by the priests of Ptolemy V, it contains the same text written in Greek and in hieroglyphics.
The word mural tends to evokes specific images, from the cave drawings of the stone age to stylised Egyptian hieroglyphics, or the Michaelangelo frescoes at the Sistine Chapel.
One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek.
A series of worm-holes traced erratic hieroglyphics across a scaling corner; all the varied texts were illuminated by quartzose particles glittering in the sun, and here and there fine green grains of glauconite. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics.
They seem to have consisted of scenical representations of the philosophy and religion of those times, which had previously been painted in hieroglyphic figures to perpetuate them before the discovery of letters; and are well explained in Dr. Warburton's divine legation of Moses; who believes with great probability, that Canto I
Their complex writing system, hieroglyphics, was considered virtually undecipherable for thousands of years.
The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was likely invented to help with trade, allowing merchants record their wares and account for their stock.
But hieroglyphics and histories which seem to pass the bounds of belief I call inconceivable; yet even among these last there are many which our method enables us to investigate, and to discover the meaning of their narrator. Theologico-Political Treatise
Cracking the ancient code of hieroglyphics was once considered one of the greatest feats of cryptology.
Ancient Egyptians left behind a rich artistic heritage in the form of pyramids, pharaonic painting and sculpture, hieroglyphics, and architecture.
Between them was a third smaller eye, symbolic of wisdom, and instead of a nose, a curious hieroglyphic like a question mark. TANK OF SERPENTS
A finely carved hieroglyphic text with the early history of Tikal's royal lineage is on the back.
It is the head of this bird which is represented in the hieroglyphic figures upon the augural staff; at least so it appeared to me whenever I saw the bird displaying its crest. Travels in Nubia
In the 1820s, Jean-François Champollion undertook the decoding, indeed the deciphering, of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Well," came the quick reply from the cyberstacks, the raising of an eyebrow almost audible in the e-mail, "first: hieroglyphic is the adjective. Secrets of the Crypt - Arthur Phillips talks about how he came to write The Egyptologist
It is no coincidence that the 4th Dynasty shows the first flourishing of the hieratic script, the cursive, simplified form of hieroglyphics that would henceforth be used in all non-monumental writings.
Didnt you see how Ben when even deeper down, and there was a pilar with the hieroglyphics on it. The Tail Section » Your Voice: The Island Moves. WAIT WHAT?
She told me that the hieroglyphics and pictures which the Indians cut on trees, or draw on barks, or rocks, which are designed to convey instruction, are called KE-KEE-WIN -- a word which has its plural in un. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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With reference, in particular, to the ansated cross of Egypt, Letronne, Raoul-Rochette, and Lajard discuss with much learning the symbolism of that simple hieroglyphic of life, in which the Christians of Egypt seem to have recognized an anticipatory revelation of the Christian Cross, and which they employed in their monuments. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The mantle piece -- remember that on this portion of a great building, some artists, by their exquisite workmanship, have become world-renowned -- is formed of a beam of wood, covered with strips of tin procured from cans, upon which still remain in black hieroglyphics, the names of the different eatables which they formerly contained. Louise A. K. S. Clappe, "Dame Shirley"
Ramses ' hieroglyphic hand was extremely elegant, in striking contrast to his English handwriting, which was practically illegible. LION IN THE VALLEY
The markings are large blotches and spots, often forming zones or caps about the larger end, where they seem almost always to be most conspicuous, as they vary in colour from an intense burnt-sienna which is almost black, through a dingy maroon, and again to a dull, somewhat pale reddish brown; here and there individual eggs exhibit a hair-line or two, or a hieroglyphic-like mark, but these are the exceptions. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Containing an official proclamation in several languages of the day, it was used by 19th and 20th century scholars to translate hieroglyphics.
On the biconvex hieroglyphic seal found at Troy, see J. The Trojan War
In recent decades, anthropologists and archaeologists have been able to decipher large parts of the hieroglyphic code.
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.
Though hundreds of Maya books were burned, we do have their visual art and their hieroglyphic inscriptions to partially reveal a poetics we are only beginning to understand.
I couldn’t very well tell him the truth, that it was my own system, a boustrophedonic code based on six languages, three alphabets, a variety of symbols mathematical and chemical, and a hieroglyphic, designed to keep up with even the fastest of lecturers and leave me time to record nonverbal data, as well. A Letter of Mary
And from the standpoint of medicine as an art for the prevention and cure of disease, the man who translates the hieroglyphics of science into the plain language of healing is certainly the more useful.
It included not only reading and writing and simple arithmetic, but hieroglyphic Egyptian and archaeology. LORD OF THE SILENT
He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
His compositions were sometimes written in what resembled hieroglyphics. Times, Sunday Times
[47] Philo Judaeus says, that "Moses had been initiated by the Egyptians into the philosophy of symbols and hieroglyphics, as well as into the ritual of the holy animals. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Phase's work became ever more complex and grew further and further away from its original simple signature towards a hieroglyphical calligraphic abstraction.
Examining texts brought from Egypt, he began to identify a relationship between hieroglyphic and non-hieroglyphic scripts.
Amazingly a curious pagan or early Christian 6 ft. tomb stone with hieroglyphic inscriptions is still standing in absolute majesty despite centuries of Atlantic weather conditions.
Like the indigenous tribes of Latin America or Africa I was using art as a hieroglyphic language, a language capable of transcending all the borders and cultural differences.
The depiction of a ruler, together with the hieroglyphic inscription, suggests that it had a commemorative function, much like a Maya stele.
Frosted light from lanterns, images of dragons, porcelain figurines, and banners with hieroglyphic messages, enhanced the decor of the restaurant, while soft and relaxing music played gently in the background.
Then, in 1799 near the town of Rosetta, a French explorer found a 2,000-year-old stone slab that had extensive hieroglyphic inscriptions and a perfect Greek translation beneath it.
Then, in 1785, Charles Joseph de Guignes suggested that the three known Egyptian scripts (hieroglyphic, the early cursive script hieratic, and demotic) were connected.
A monument which was erected in his honor at his native town, Figeac, bears the well-chosen inscription which so frequently occurs among the titles of the Pharaohs in hieroglyphics, "'_anch zete_," i.e., Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
There was much furtive whispering and glancing in my direction - who is this strange lao wai, with two cameras and writing strange hieroglyphics in his little notebook?
Evelyn, “borne on a branch set with thorns, and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses.” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
The hieroglyphic image for this word was simply a picture of a seated cat facing to the left, with its tail curled along its left side.
Standing inside the 4,300-year-old structure, Zahi Hawass said hieroglyphics on the tomb's walls indicate it belonged to Rudj-ka, a priest inspector in the mortuary cult of the pharaoh Khafre, who built the second largest of Giza's pyramids. Egypt's Top Archaeologists Discover Nearly 4,500 Year Old Tomb
Its surface was etched with carvings and hieroglyphics, dating back to the dawn of the world itself.
Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions in tombs epitomise the idea that the voices of the dead can be heard again through the written word.
There were a ton of cool things in Dr. El-Baz's office, including a photomural of the space shuttle behind his desk and a cartouche with his name written out in hieroglyphics. Zoe P. Strassfield: The Best First Day of School Ever!
Rosetta's name comes from the famous ‘Rosetta Stone’, from which Egyptian hieroglyphics were deciphered almost 200 years ago.
In the late 1930s and early '40s, Loren MacIver developed a sweet, playful style that superimposed linear, symbolic and hieroglyphic forms on soft, pale washes of color.
A title flashed _Slave Girls From Hell_ -- then a big, high-ceilinged room with Egyptian hieroglyphics on the walls came into view in grainy black and white. White Jazz
The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics.
Linguistic or numerical listing was employed and the storage media were clay tablets, papyrus codices, leather scrolls or hieroglyphics.
My copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts. Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850
Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
The hieroglyphic inscription, although carved with hesitancy, is grammatically proper Egyptian.
They wore helmets suggestive of the heads of flies, and their black silks were embroidered with arcane silver hieroglyphics.
While it is true, as critics of the Maya hieroglyphic decipherment like to point out, that the extant records deal almost exclusively with the aristocratic levels of society, we can nevertheless learn a great deal about significant social and cultural changes that must have affected the lives of Maya commoners. Primary sources of Maya history - part five
He used the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the fallen obelisk which he removed from Philae and the Greek text on its pedestal to further the decipherment of hieroglyphs by his recognition of the name Cleopatra.
On each side of the narrow apartment behind the pronaos is a small gate, opening into the passage above mentioned; opposite to one of these gates is an avenue leading down to the river, and on the outside of the other are two long inscriptions; one of which is in hieroglyphics, and the other, immediately below it, and, apparently, by the same hand, in the common Egyptian character, like that on the rolls of papyrus. Travels in Nubia
But of course the great intellectual barrier that Champollion had to overcome was this long-held assumption that hieroglyphics were just picture writing.
Hieroglyphics are carved into the walls of the temple.
There are occasionally good discussions about our many undeciphered scripts Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphics, Cypro-Minoan, not to mention the Phaistos Disk and other fun scraps. An Ancient Egyptian boardgame to appease readers
Thanks to these marvellous inventions, bookworms, and others do not have to wrestle with the intricacies of the hieroglyphics.
We went from hieroglyphics to mimeographs to home computers, which allow us to mass mail letters that go something like this.
I'd been told that all the signs in the capital Sofia were bilingual but this is not the case. Apart from a couple of government buildings, everything sports the same baffling hieroglyphics.
Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules.
From conservation work done on this structure, it is known that it goes back at least as early as the 1st century AD, and poorly preserved Greek and hieroglyphic inscriptions hint at an earlier Ptolemaic date.
Deity symbolized by the hieroglyphical senary, 634-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Allusive, or parabolical, is a narration applied only to express some special purpose or conceit; which latter kind of parabolical wisdom was much more in use in the ancient times, as by the fables of AEsop, and the brief sentences of the seven, and the use of hieroglyphics may appear. The Advancement of Learning
It also delves into Howard Carter's dramatic discovery of the golden treasures lying deep in the burial chamber of the Boy King Tutankhamun, and follows the nail-biting race to crack the code of ancient hieroglyphics.
But because the Greek version could be read without difficulty, it served as an invaluable prompt to the decipherment of the cursive and the hieroglyphic versions.
Before then, the Mayans, who lived in present-day Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico, recorded hurricanes in their hieroglyphics.
The mission is named after the famous ‘Rosetta Stone’ - a slab of volcanic rock containing carved inscriptions written in hieroglyphics.
There are few papyri from his reign, but hieroglyphic inscriptions from the Delta (especially the ‘Satrap Stele’) present him as a traditional pharaoh.
The surfaces of some of the stones were found painted over in red ochre or paint, with rudish hieroglyphics -- being, as first shown by Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
This was a key, just as Egyptian hieroglyphics could be deciphered only when the bilingual Rosetta Stone was found.
He has taken the ancient tablets and compared them, side by side, to hieroglyphic texts, identifying each alleged primordial "decorative pintadera" as a meaningful symbol. SofiaEcho RSS feed
The depiction of a ruler, together with the hieroglyphic inscription, suggests that it had a commemorative function, much like a Maya stele.
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Half listening, practicing his shorthand, or hieroglyphics as Don called it, Rob went off into another dwam. A Small Death in the Great Glen
Her cartouche is sculptured in the space between her right arm and left knee, but the hieroglyphic characters have been erased, and it is no longer legible. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Words would lose their meaning, numbers would transform into hieroglyphics. BETTER THAN THIS
This huge amphitheatre is in course of excavation; and it is quite possible – possible and probable – that inscriptions in the earliest stages of the hieroglyphic writing may there be discovered. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Maya hieroglyphic texts use a set vocabulary of expressions to refer to altars and pedestals; most of these terms continue to frustrate firm phonetic decipherment.
Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics.
It has been said that of the component elements of his hieroglyphical name, Isis is the first, and that the name Osiris really signifies the ‘Eye of Isis.’
Gently, he turned over the scarab to reveal miniscule hieroglyphics on the back.
`According to the diary the hieroglyphic inscription which came with it was clear about its power. SANDS OF TIME
No such circumstance appeared, but as her eyes glanced, with almost phrenzied eagerness, she perceived something shadowy in a remote corner of the floor; and on approaching, discovered what seemed a dreadful hieroglyphic, a mattrass of straw, in which she thought she beheld the death-bed of the miserable recluse; nay more, that the impression it still retained, was that which her form had left there. The Italian
Historians used the Rosetta stone to crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Written in hieroglyphic form with accompanying portraitures, the historical texts are based on an early form of the Maya language, probably Chol. Primary sources of Maya history - part one
The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was likely invented to help with trade, allowing merchants record their wares and account for their stock.
Ramses ' hieroglyphic hand was extremely elegant, in striking contrast to his English handwriting, which was practically illegible. LION IN THE VALLEY
His script was not legible even the right way up and looked Cyrillic or hieroglyphic rather than English. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The stone, as you probably know, is inscribed with three forms of writing: Greek, hieroglyphic, and a less ornate, demotic form of Egyptian.
He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
The point is that written texts, whether in hieroglyphic form or in Roman transcription, afford us a unique insight into the hearts and minds of the people who wrote them or those for whom they were written. Primary sources of Maya history - part two
Evelyn, "borne on a branch set with thorns and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
After the Egyptologists of the school of De Rouge 36 thought they had demonstrated that the familiar symbols of the Phoenician alphabet had been copied from that modified form of Egyptian hieroglyphics known as the hieratic writing, the Assyriologists came forward to prove that certain characters of the Babylonian syllabary also show a likeness to the alphabetical characters that seemingly could not be due to chance. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
The cella is an oblong square; its walls are covered with hieroglyphics and sculptures: on one side of it is a dark apartment, opening into the pronaos, and on the other side is a staircase leading up to the top of the temple: below the staircase are several small rooms. Travels in Nubia
None so keen as these young misses to know an inward movement by an outward sign of adornment: if they have not as many signals as the ships that sail the great seas, there is not an end of ribbon or a turn of a ringlet which is not a hieroglyphic with a hidden meaning to these little cruisers over the ocean of sentiment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
The cultures of the past recorded their reflections of daily life, whether they were figures of Pharaohs strutting across a wall of hieroglyphics or scenes of Russian peasant women sheaving wheat.
The hieroglyphical senary (the double equilateral triangle) is the symbol of Deity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
‘The numerals of Pythagoras,’ says Porphyry, ‘were hieroglyphical symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of all things.’
Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics.
Perfumes used by the Egyptian pharaohs have been recreated using hieroglyphics and Napoleonic treasure.
Their complex writing system, hieroglyphics, was considered virtually undecipherable for thousands of years.
Many moths are christened only in Latin, but the lovely vernacular names, Joe said, date from the seventeenth century: one species that flocked to our trap that night was the relatively common setaceous hebrew character, so named to denote the hieroglyphic on its forewing. Wildwood
Copan has an acropolis, four kilometres of tunnels and a hieroglyphic stairway, providing historians and archaeologists with major sources of information.
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.
In mythology, in what we may call pictography or rudimentary hieroglyphics, as well as in ordinary handicrafts, there is a marked advance beyond the Indians of the lower status of barbarism, after making due allowances for such things as the people of the pueblos have learned from white men. [ The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
Early hieroglyphic numerals can be found on temples, stone monuments and vases.
The mantle piece -- remember that on this portion of a great building, some artists, by their exquisite workmanship, have become world-renowned -- is formed of a beam of wood, covered with strips of tin procured from cans, upon which still remain in black hieroglyphics, the names of the different eatables which they formerly contained. Louise A. K. S. Clappe, "Dame Shirley"
They looked a little like hieroglyphics, but a lot more complicated.
After the fall of the Hittite Empire, so-called hieroglyphic Hittite was used to write inscriptions in the Luwian language. B. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture
Words would lose their meaning, numbers would transform into hieroglyphics. BETTER THAN THIS
And based on this edict, as well as several hieroglyphic inscriptions, people such as Plutarch in 100 A.D. insisted that the root word chem was derived from the name of ancient Egypt, which was called the land of chem, or alchemia. NPR Topics: News

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