Examining texts brought from Egypt, he began to identify a relationship between hieroglyphic and non-hieroglyphic scripts. |
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A finely carved hieroglyphic text with the early history of Tikal's royal lineage is on the back. |
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Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions in tombs epitomise the idea that the voices of the dead can be heard again through the written word. |
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The depiction of a ruler, together with the hieroglyphic inscription, suggests that it had a commemorative function, much like a Maya stele. |
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The hieroglyphic image for this word was simply a picture of a seated cat facing to the left, with its tail curled along its left side. |
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Dated 196 B.C., the stone is engraved with Greek and hieroglyphic texts that enabled scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian writing. |
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For hundreds of years, from the Spanish conquest onward, Maya hieroglyphic writing was a mystery to those attempting to read it. |
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Early hieroglyphic numerals can be found on temples, stone monuments and vases. |
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The hieroglyphic inscription, although carved with hesitancy, is grammatically proper Egyptian. |
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The hieroglyphic texts name the figures, artists and dates of commemorated events. |
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In recent decades, anthropologists and archaeologists have been able to decipher large parts of the hieroglyphic code. |
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There are few papyri from his reign, but hieroglyphic inscriptions from the Delta present him as a traditional pharaoh. |
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Copan has an acropolis, four kilometres of tunnels and a hieroglyphic stairway, providing historians and archaeologists with major sources of information. |
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Though hundreds of Maya books were burned, we do have their visual art and their hieroglyphic inscriptions to partially reveal a poetics we are only beginning to understand. |
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But because the Greek version could be read without difficulty, it served as an invaluable prompt to the decipherment of the cursive and the hieroglyphic versions. |
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Manifesto, a big hieroglyphic mural painting, is an evaluation grid of the relationship of Miltos MANETAS with these three women. |
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The semantic valence attributed to a hieroglyphic language is two-edged. |
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The initial objective was to provide a simple and fast way to produce hieroglyphic texts in electronic form. |
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The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was likely invented to help with trade, allowing merchants record their wares and account for their stock. |
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Possibility offered by GOT to embed latin text within the hieroglyphic text. |
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It is based on the excellent Manuel de Codage, but extends its specification to provide greater control and features in the hieroglyphic text. |
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It is the language used by Glyphotext to allow you to create Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. |
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The pyramids, hieroglyphic writing and other wonders of ancient Egyptian civilization. |
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A role-playing game that introduces the Mayan systems of numbers and hieroglyphic writing enriches this already engaging experience. |
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Like the indigenous tribes of Latin America or Africa I was using art as a hieroglyphic language, a language capable of transcending all the borders and cultural differences. |
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One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek. |
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In the late 1930s and early '40s, Loren MacIver developed a sweet, playful style that superimposed linear, symbolic and hieroglyphic forms on soft, pale washes of color. |
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Thus, the father's loss is symptomatized in another language, a hieroglyphic of sorts, namely the statues that Ka carves repeatedly. |
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As a consequence of its decreased legibility, the spelling of the hieratic script tended to be more rigid and more complete than that of hieroglyphic writing. |
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For full treatment, see hieroglyphic writing. |
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Describing a great number of their own finds, two of the world's most prominent experts in the hieroglyphic script of the Maya introduce the reader to their history, unknown until quite recently. |
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Ogham was not a flexible, developed language, but more a set of hieroglyphic words for a limited range of things, mostly denoting objects revered by the Druids. |
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This page is from a manuscript written using hieroglyphic characters developed by French missionaries to teach religion, the lives of the saints and hymns to the Mi'kmaq. |
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Here she uses a great variety of figures from her hieroglyphic alphabet, as if the artist wished to embrace all the ages and the cultures since the creation of the world. |
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The invention and evolution of the Phoenician alphabet, the earliest known example of alphabetical as opposed to hieroglyphic or cuneiform writing. |
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Gradually, even before development began, a more complete and fundamental view concerning the problematic of editing hieroglyphic texts started to emerge. |
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By selecting a quadrat in the hieroglyphic text and then clicking with the mouse right-button, a contextual menu pops-up which shows the Form a group... command. |
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The hieroglyphic graphics engine will by default position the glyph according to predefined alignment rules, but sometimes you may need to override these default alignment rules to achieve correct positioning. |
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His vigorous, chartlike compositions of hieroglyphic signs and word lists are products of a dandyish, semiotic gamesmanship. |
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The Egyptians also made use of birds in their hieroglyphic scripts, many of which, though stylized, are still identifiable to species. |
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Warfare is depicted in Maya art from the Classic period, and wars and victories are mentioned in hieroglyphic inscriptions. |
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Maya architecture also incorporates various art forms and hieroglyphic texts. |
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Some palaces possess associated hieroglyphic descriptions that identify them as the royal residences of named rulers. |
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The basic unit of Maya hieroglyphic text is the glyph block, which transcribes a word or phrase. |
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Although hieroglyphic text may be laid out in varying manners, generally text is arranged into double columns of glyph blocks. |
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The rebus principle appears in both the Egyptian hieroglyphic and in the Chinese writing systems. |
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The road was later used by the Romans and is believed to have been renovated by the Ptolemic Queen Cleopatra, who left her cartouche, an inscribed hieroglyphic. |
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This latent syllabism, which underlies the alphabetism of the hieroglyphic writing, indicates with sufficient clearness the origin of the Egyptian alphabet. |
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The Popol Vuh was written in the Latin script in early colonial times, and was probably transcribed from a hieroglyphic book by an unknown K'iche' Maya nobleman. |
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