| Containing an official proclamation in several languages of the day, it was used by 19th and 20th century scholars to translate hieroglyphics. |
| Cracking the ancient code of hieroglyphics was once considered one of the greatest feats of cryptology. |
| Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules. |
| Logotypes and logograms push typography in the direction of hieroglyphics, which tend to be looked at rather than read. |
| The writing is enchorial, but of a form so closely allied to hieroglyphics that it shows how the one passes into the other. |
| He learnt hieroglyphics and Coptic and spent his vacations in the Louvre Museum studying its collections. |
