Thanks to these marvellous inventions, bookworms, and others do not have to wrestle with the intricacies of the hieroglyphics. |
They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow. |
Containing an official proclamation in several languages of the day, it was used by 19th and 20th century scholars to translate hieroglyphics. |
Their complex writing system, hieroglyphics, was considered virtually undecipherable for thousands of years. |
We went from hieroglyphics to mimeographs to home computers, which allow us to mass mail letters that go something like this. |
He learnt hieroglyphics and Coptic and spent his vacations in the Louvre Museum studying its collections. |