“Geology now rediscovers them, like an almost illegible hieroglyphic on the leaf of a historic record.”
“Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics.”
“Every story I submitted to Dr. Shedd was turned back with denigrating comments scrawled in an illegible hieroglyphic that would have been intelligible only to a medieval alchemist.”
“The ancient Egyptian scribes carefully etched each hieroglyph onto the papyrus, composing a written narrative that would captivate future generations.”
“Here, the mirror is a hieroglyph for truth and confronts us with realities we might prefer not to see.”
“He argued that the use of V for five is due to the fact that it is a kind of hieroglyph representing the open hand with its five fingers.”
a writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.