“Geology now rediscovers them, like an almost illegible hieroglyphic on the leaf of a historic record.”

“Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics.”

“Every story I submitted to Dr. Shedd was turned back with denigrating comments scrawled in an illegible hieroglyphic that would have been intelligible only to a medieval alchemist.”

“The ancient Egyptian scribes carefully etched each hieroglyph onto the papyrus, composing a written narrative that would captivate future generations.”

“Here, the mirror is a hieroglyph for truth and confronts us with realities we might prefer not to see.”

“He argued that the use of V for five is due to the fact that it is a kind of hieroglyph representing the open hand with its five fingers.”

“The plan on which Abury was built, is that sacred hierogram of the Egyptians and other ancient nations, the circle and snake.”

“This hierogram is the symbol of the serpent, a circle with a snake passing through it, like a needle and thread.”

“The portals of the Egyptian Temples are decorated with the hierogram of the Circle and the Serpent.”

“Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules.”

“The writing is enchorial, but of a form so closely allied to hieroglyphics that it shows how the one passes into the other.”

“Logotypes and logograms push typography in the direction of hieroglyphics, which tend to be looked at rather than read.”

“They walked into a huge building, a temple riddled with runes and hieroglyphs.”

“For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world.”

“In a practice common among schizophrenics, he keeps a notebook, writing in hieroglyphs that are only comprehensible to him.”