The obelisk is covered in hieroglyphics—the ancient Egyptians’ pictorial writing system—and engraved with both names that Ramses used as king. During his long reign in the 13th century B.C ...

As Hieroglyphic Being, Chicago’s Jamal Moss has long fused house, industrial and jazz into a mutant strain of proto-club futurism. Dance Music 4 Bad People, his first album for Smalltown Supersound, ...

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Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

One of the fragments, a sharp-eyed officer noted, featured hieroglyphs as well as a second text block in Greek, and then a third, unidentified script (now known as demotic text). (How the Rosetta ...

Last Sunday, Orisun Gallery exhibited ‘Hieroglyphics of Womanhood’, a solo exhibition of international award-winning veteran artist, Chief Tola Wewe. Featuring 24 art pieces, 22 by the artist ...

When I grew up, I was differentiating these things. I was like, wait a minute — this has hieroglyphs on it. It looks very different from the architecture of the classical world. And why are ...

The Rosetta Stone was vital in understanding the writing system of hieroglyphics, which spent years as a forgotten writing system. After the stone was first discovered, it took many years for it ...

The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic writings appear fully formed, either because they were developed on perishable, now-lost materials or because they were quickly "invented by an unknown genius.

Because the technology works on the basis of image analysis, it is in theory applicable to any writing whatsoever, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to copperplate. Ten years after its initial development ...

They took a closer look and realized they’d captured a new species: Eremias graphica, or the hieroglyphic racerunner lizard. The hieroglyphic racerunner lizard can reach about 7 inches in length ...