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Definition of Hieroglyphs
1. hieroglyph [n] - See also: hieroglyph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieroglyphs
Literary usage of Hieroglyphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The language of the hieroglyphs is nearest to the Coptic, the form which it ...
Considered as the most ancient written language, the hieroglyphs throw great ..."
2. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"The language of the hieroglyphs is nearest to the Coptic, the form which it ...
Considered as the most ancient written language, the hieroglyphs throw great ..."
3. Beni Hasan by Percy Edward Newberry, George Willoughby Fraser (1896)
"A large number of the hieroglyphs shown in Pis. i.-vi.. are taken from the great
list of offerings given on PI. xvii. of Beni Hasan, I. 1 See Beni Hasan, ..."
4. The New York Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle: With a Preliminary Sketch of the by Charles Edward Moldenke (1891)
"WB divide the Egyptian hieroglyphs, after the manner of ... In the following llst
the hieroglyphs are given together with what they were probably meant to ..."
5. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"The celebrated Champollion (the younger), first called attention to the fact that
the phonetic hieroglyphs are intermingled with those which mark ..."
6. Egypt by Eva Ambros (2001)
"We speak of ideographs when the meaning of the word is symboli/ed by a Above:
hieroglyphs, to be read from top to bottom. Right: A minaret. symbol: so that ..."
7. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1900)
"Griffith (hieroglyphs, p. 45) states that the former sign represents " a short
... Griffith remarks (hieroglyphs, p. 44) that this has been " supposed to ..."
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