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

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

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

Champollion also had the presence of mind to count up the number of Greek words and the number of individual hieroglyphs in what were presumably equivalent texts.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan