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Example sentences for hieroglyphics

The mantel is topped by a triangular slab decorated with hieroglyphics, a scarab, winged figures.
They are learning to decipher the hieroglyphics of their ancestors -- a vast legacy left on stone, bark paper, and ceramic.
And unlike the picture symbols of ancient hieroglyphics, they do not usually resemble objects either.
He did not go to college, but learned Egyptian hieroglyphics and five languages as a teenager.
He went down a narrow staircase to an underground tomb, where hieroglyphics covered the walls.
Egyptians included in their hieroglyphics a symbol for the electric catfish of the Nile.

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