hieroglyphics

• Anyway, the hieroglyphics were also seen on the door inside Ben's house which led to that secret chamber where he seemingly "called" the Smoke Monster to do his bidding. —  Moviehole
• Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk. —  My Ántonia
• But, as the hieroglyphics were also always used for carved writing on all subjects, and the common hand only used on papyrus with a reed pen, the latter became wholly an indistinct running hand; it lost that beauty and regularity which the hieroglyphics, like the Greek and Roman characters, kept by being carved on stone, and hence it would seem arose the want of a new alphabet for the New Testament. —  History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)
• We find a wonderful acquaintance with astronomy, even to such details as the real cause of eclipses,--and the length of the year given by intercalations of surprising accuracy; and, at the same time, no knowledge whatever of the art of writing alphabetically, for their hieroglyphics are nothing but suggestive pictures. —  Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
• Marcellin l. xvii. c. 4. He gives us a Greek interpretation of the hieroglyphics, and his commentator Lindenbrogius adds a Latin inscription, which, in twenty verses of the age of Constantius, contain a short history of the obelisk Footnote 46: See Donat. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

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