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10 unusual facts about Egyptian Hieroglyphs


Egyptian Bridge

An unusual feature was a pair of cast-iron gates featuring Egyptian-style columns, ornaments, and hieroglyphics, with many details of the ironwork elaborately gilded.

Egyptian hieroglyphs

In 1998, a German archaeological team under Günter Dreyer excavating at Abydos (modern Umm el-Qa'ab) uncovered tomb U-j of a Predynastic ruler, and recovered three hundred clay labels inscribed with proto-hieroglyphs, dating to the Naqada IIIA period of the 33rd century BCE.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs, a formal alphabetic/logographic writing system of ancient Egypt.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters containing the characters of the Gardiner sign list.

Jabiru

In particular, Gardiner's Egyptian hieroglyph G29, believed to depict an E. senegalensis, is sometimes labeled "Jabiru" in hieroglyph lists.

Jeremy Curl

Curl worked briefly at the British Museum, London, in the Ancient Egyptology department alongside renown Egyptologist Vivien Davies where he learnt to read Egyptian hieroglyphs and awakened his love for ancient and enigmatic cultures.

Natural number

The ancient Egyptians developed a powerful system of numerals with distinct hieroglyphs for 1, 10, and all the powers of 10 up to over 1 million.

Oscar Montelius

By taking calendrical dates from the recently deciphered hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt, Montelius employed a complex system of cross-dating through typologies and associated finds to apply absolute dates to archaeological finds and features all over Europe.

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur

The first volume appeared in 1974, with a set of guidelines appearing under a stylised representation of the s3k crocodile hieroglyph sketched by Professor Wildung.

Time Walker

While Plummer conducts his investigation, McCadden translates the hieroglyphic text from the sarcophagus.


Chaeremon of Alexandria

He was the author of a History of Egypt; of works on Comets, Egyptian astrology, and Hieroglyphics; and of a grammatical treatise on expletive conjunctions.

Egyptian Building

Hieroglyphs are incorporated in the antechamber decorations and the floor tiles depict a large scarab beetle.

Unicursal hexagram

The Symbol itself is the equivalent of the Egyptian Ankh or the Rosicrucian's Rosy Cross; which represents the microcosmic forces (the pentacle, representation of the pentagram with 5 elements, the tetragrammaton or YHVH) interweave with the macro-cosmic forces (the hexagram, the representation of the planetary or heavenly cosmic forces, the divine).