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hieroglyph
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“The pharaoh wants you to draw the hieroglyphs that will be carved into the obelisk.”
The exterior is covered in hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid shaped entrance.
A vulture is used as the hieroglyph for mother, mut being the word for them both, and for the mother goddess of Thebes.
Overall she says the video seemed "poorly researched" and pointed out an instance where a teacher in a school scene is reading the hieroglyphs backward when they should be read from right to left.
There's also no bilingual artefact like the Rosetta Stone, which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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