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unusual facts about Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt


Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel

For example, the façades of the Great and Small temples are carved to represent pylons – the monumental trapezoidal gates representative of the Egyptian hieroglyph for horizon characteristic of all Egyptian temples.


A Heap of Broken Images

The guests include Jus Allah of Jedi Mind Tricks, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Sabac Red of Non Phixion, A-Plus and Pep Love of Hieroglyphics, Chief Kamachi of Army of the Pharaohs, Guru of Gang Starr, Mike Ladd, Rob Sonic, Holocaust, Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship, Virtuoso and Awol One.

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.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness

A number of supplemental materials (fake Arkham Advertiser clippings, pictures of the Elder Thing city, and rubbings of the Elder Things' hieroglyphics, with the images of the Elder Things based on their appearance in Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials) were included with the CD, to maintain the illusion that is was an actual recording of a real-life event.

Delinquent Monastery

DelMon has worked on tracks with a diverse list of hip-hop collaborators such as Dr. Dre, Sean Price (Boot Camp Clik), Pep Love (Hieroglyphics), Casual (Hieroglyphics), Mistah F.A.B, Raekwon the Chef (Wu Tang Clan), and Cali Agents.

DJ Sabzi

They opened for and shared stages with the following artists: De La Soul, Slick Rick, Wordsworth, Hieroglyphics, Immortal Technique, The Coup and Masta Ace.

Egyptian Building

The hieroglyphics in the antechamber to auditorium come from an Egyptian hymn to the gods Amun and Aten in the reign of Amenhotep III (1390-1353 B.C.).

Goapele

Apart from her solo work, she has collaborated with West Coast MCs such as Aceyalone, E-40, Zion-I, Mac Mall, and those involved in the Hieroglyphics Crew, Detroit based vocalist Dwele as well as Clyde Carson and Mos Def on the track “Different.”

Lettre à M. Dacier

While visiting his brother Jacques-Joseph on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion made a crucial breakthrough in understanding the phonetic nature of hieroglyphics, and proclaimed "Je tiens l'affaire!" ("I've got it!") and then fainted dead away.

Melissa

Jacob Bryant, a significant British scholar and late 18th to early 19th century mythographer, recognized that as all the great occurrences of old were represented by hieroglyphics, we may in consequence of it perceive many different emblems, which manifestly relate to the same history.

Oahspe: A New Bible

Ward, who claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Cleopatra's Needle obelisk in Central Park.

Opio

Opio has appeared on all four Souls of Mischief albums, both Hieroglyphics studio albums, and released his solo debut, Triangulation Station, in February, 2005 on the Hieroglyphics' own independent label, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings.

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.

Peter Apfelbaum

Apfelbaum formed The Hieroglyphics Ensemble with jazz musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area, including Jeff Cressman, Will Bernard, Norbert Stachel, Jessica Jones, Tony Jones, Peck Almond, Dezon Claiborne, Josh Jones, Jai Uttal, and many others.

Phesto

After Phesto and the Souls of Mischief were dropped by Jive, the group was incorporated into the Hieroglyphics in 1995, at the urging of Del tha Funkee Homosapien.

William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster

‘Coming back,’ writes Horace Walpole to George Montagu on 20 May 1736, ‘we saw Easton Neston, where in an old greenhouse is a wonderful fine statue of Tully haranguing a numerous assembly of decayed emperors, vestal virgins with new noses, Colossus's, Venus's, headless carcases, and carcaseless heads, pieces of tombs, and hieroglyphics’.


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