hieroglyphics

• “Far otherwise did heretofore the sages of Egypt, when they wrote by letters, which they called hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them.”

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• “Serapis was torn down and laid bare, "says Socrates," there were found in it, engraven on stones, certain characters, which they call hieroglyphics, having the forms of crosses.”

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• “Egypt, when they wrote by letters, which they called hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them.”

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

• “One of the most difficult aspects of translating hieroglyphics is the fact that the ancient Egyptians did not record vowels.”

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• “No name was found for this sport, however, it is chronicled in hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt about 2000 B.C.”

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• “How," I asked the curator on e-duty, "do I write ‘to be sexually aroused’ in hieroglyphics?”

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• “A star in hieroglyphics represents God (Nu 24: 17).”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “I'm sure there's some graffiti in hieroglyphics on it.)”

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• “It had little numbers with symbols that we had to call hieroglyphics because I could not understand them.”

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• “They were used by the Egyptian priests to conceal the mysteries of their religion from the vulgar, and were thence called hieroglyphics; that is, sacred engravings or carvings.”

  A Dissertation on Divine Justice

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