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hieroglyph

noun as in character

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“The pharaoh wants you to draw the hieroglyphs that will be carved into the obelisk.”

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The exterior is covered in hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid shaped entrance.

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A vulture is used as the hieroglyph for mother, mut being the word for them both, and for the mother goddess of Thebes.

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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.

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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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