hieroglyphs
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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Incoherent hieroglyphs plate the walls, plastic pharaohs stand guard in the check-in lane, and taxis idle under the haunches of a gargantuan Sphinx.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
She writes snatches of description and dialogue in her journal, but when she reads them later, her words jumble like hieroglyphs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
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.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
Today, the pink color is gone, the surface is rough, and some of the hieroglyphs are hard to see.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
