The professor ran his fingers over the lines of hieroglyphic script.

She is the discoverer of the classification system in the hieroglyphic script.

Later, the Egyptians used hieratic instead of hieroglyphic script to show numbers.

He also recognised the relationship between the hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts.

Or the last appearance of the ancient hieroglyphic script just before AD 400?

It is written in a hieroglyphic script known as Anatolian hieroglyphs.

It is spread over 3 levels descending to 20 meters below ground level, and includes numerous hieroglyphic scripts.

Native Egyptian deities saw no revival, nor was the sacred hieroglyphic script used.

On their skins are scrawled indecipherable messages in a beautiful hieroglyphic script.

It has two panels of hieroglyphic script, containing a total of 64 glyphs.

Hieroglyphic script was held to have been invented by the god Thoth, and the hieroglyphs themselves were powerful.

Most surviving texts in the Egyptian language are primarily written in the hieroglyphic script.

He announced that he had concluded to a Mycenaean hieroglyphic script of about 60 characters.

After the 8th century BC, the hieroglyphic script was restricted to religious and accounting purposes.

It was fashioned from limestone and sculpted on one side only, with four columns of poorly preserved hieroglyphic script.

Many Maya stelae depict only the king of the city, and describe his actions with hieroglyphic script.

The Egyptians also made use of birds in their hieroglyphic scripts, many of which, though stylized, are still identifiable to species.

The first Cretan writing was not borrowed from Egypt but resembled it in type, and is known as the hieroglyphic script.

In some cases, where the language is particularly terse, the books appear to render hieroglyphic script, and thus to hark back to the pre-conquest period.

The hieroglyphic script was logographic with phonetic adjuncts that included an effective alphabet.

The growing use of papyrus led to the replacement of cumbersome hieroglyphic scripts by cursive or hieratic writing.

The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts.

Nikolai Grube has been heavily involved in the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic script.

The expedition was directed by Jean-François Champollion, who deciphered the hieroglyphic script.

With understanding of the hieroglyphic script lost, the information about Egyptian culture and beliefs that was preserved in the surviving temples lay incomprehensible to the world.