pictographic writing
121Peter Benjamin Graham — Peter Graham Peter Graham, Sydney, 1953 Born 4 June 1925 Melbourne, Australia Died 15 April 1987 Melbourne, Australia …
122hieroglyphic — hieroglyphically, adv. /huy euhr euh glif ik, huy reuh /, adj. 1. Also, hieroglyphical. 2. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized,… …
123demotic script — Egyptian hieroglyphic writing of cursive form that was used in handwritten texts from the early 7th century BC until the 5th century AD. Demotic script derived from the earlier pictographic hieroglyphic inscriptions and the cursive hieratic …
124Paleo-Siberian languages — ▪ linguistics Introduction Paleo Siberian also spelled Paleosiberian , also called Paleo Asiatic languages or Hyperborean languages languages spoken in Asian Russia (Siberia) that belong to four genetically unrelated groups Yeniseian… …
125McClelland Sherd — Material Clay Created 2nd millennium BC Discovered Tell Jisr, Lebanon, by McClelland Present location Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon The McClelland Sherd, Tell Jisr Sherd or El Jisr Sherd is a fragment …
126URBANIZATION — During the height of the Uruk period (c. 3400–3200 B.C.), so called after the old city of Uruk, southern Mesopotamia had close economic links to northern and eastern neighboring regions. Sites in southern Anatolia, northwest Syria, and eastern …
127cipher — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, John Hancock, X, a nobody, a nothing, add, algebraize, allegory, alphabetic character, argot, aught, autograph, babble, binary digit, bit, break, calculate, cant, cast, character,… …
128hieroglyphic — hi•er•o•glyph•ic [[t]ˌhaɪ ər əˈglɪf ɪk, ˌhaɪ rə [/t]] adj. Also, hi er•o•glyph′i•cal. 1) ling. of or designating a pictographic script, as that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized pictures of the things… …
