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1Egyptian hieroglyphs — A section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs …
2Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs — Demotic script on a replica of the Rosetta Stone …
3Cursive hieroglyphs — A section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs. Cursive hieroglyphs are a variety of Egyptian hieroglyphs commonly used for religious documents written on papyrus, such as the Book of the Dead. It was particularly common during the… …
4hieroglyphic writing — Introduction a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These individual signs, called hieroglyphs (hieroglyph), may be read either as pictures, as symbols for pictures, or as symbols for sounds. The name hieroglyphic… …
5Egypt in the Western imagination — has loomed large from the very first written texts in the Greek and Hebrew traditions. Egypt was already immemorially ancient to outsiders, and the idea of Egypt as a figment of the Western imagination has continued to be at least as influential… …
6Description de l'Égypte — For other uses, see Description de l Égypte (disambiguation). The Description of Egypt   …
7Maya script — Maya Type Logographic (used both logograms and syllabic characters) Languages Mayan languages Time period 3rd century BCE to …
8Rosetta Stone — For other uses, see Rosetta Stone (disambiguation). The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele …
9hieroglyph — [hī′ər ō glif΄, hī′rə glif΄] n. HIEROGLYPHIC * * * hi·er·o·glyph (hīʹər ə glĭf , hīʹrə ) n. 1. A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writing. 2. Something that suggests a hieroglyph. * * * Character in any of several systems of writing that is …
10Km (hieroglyph) — Main article: List of hieroglyphs/I …
