hieroglyph

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Recent Examples on the Web Half the seats on the flight seemed to be occupied by fellow-Deadheads, identifiable, as ever, by the hieroglyphs. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 According to the photos shared by the Post and The Archaeologist, several other Egyptian figures in similar light green outfits are seen crouching along either side of the larger figure with hieroglyphs written above them. Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024 In fact, the Egyptian word for mother was written with the vulture hieroglyph. Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2024 New clues have surfaced as a result of Frédéric Payraudeau, an associate professor in Egyptology at Sorbonne University in Paris, reexamining a fragment of the granite sarcophagus and deciphering the hieroglyphs engraved on it. Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 10 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hieroglyph 

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“Hieroglyph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hieroglyph. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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