hieroglyphs

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The house has a defective chimney, a historic beehive oven and even a hidden chamber decorated with hieroglyphs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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

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

What initially appears abstract contains hidden images: Wild creatures and undecipherable hieroglyphs lurk in the paint.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

But the hieroglyphs do make Cleopatra’s Needle even more interesting to look at.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman