hieroglyphs

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The bird has featured in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and is one of the only birds of prey known to use tools when hunting.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

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

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

Of all the citizens of Heliopolis, I have been chosen to draw the hieroglyphs that will be inscribed on the four sides of the obelisk!

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