The stairway takes its name from the 2200 glyphs that together form the longest known Maya hieroglyphic text.

It bears a long hieroglyphic text that has been only partially deciphered.

It bears a long hieroglyphic text that has not yet been fully deciphered.

The last datable hieroglyphic text was written in 394 AD.

The accompanying hieroglyphic text dates the scene and gives the names of the principal participants.

In 1984 a committee was charged with the task to develop a uniform system for the encoding of hieroglyphic texts on the computer.

The roof comb of the temple is inscribed on its sides and back with a lengthy hieroglyphic text.

Piers A and F have only hieroglyphic text on them.

The story took up around seventy pages of cursive hieroglyphic text.

Research work on the Book of the Dead has always posed technical difficulties thanks to the need to copy very long hieroglyphic texts.