Sentences with word «hieroglyph»

Each meow seems like a hieroglyph, minus the Rosetta Stone.

98 Citing the essayist Louis Menand, O'Connell and Kowal go so far as to describe writing as an inferior form of communication, precisely because it lacks the disfluencies that mark our speech.99 To them, writing is a hieroglyph, while speaking is «a symphony.»

Booted up «Project Hieroglyph ``, a big shiny movement devoted to chasing dystopia down into the cellar and replacing it with upbeat, optimistic science fiction that could Change The World.

«Hieroglyph Number 7 (Hieroglyph of Light),» 1968 - 69, oil on linen by Richard Pousette - Dart.

A smiley face, the contemporary emblem of banal pleasantry, in Gbur's hands reads as both vacant and malevolent; rather than serving its standard purpose of evincing happiness, the smiling hieroglyph instead reconnoiters the potential for deception and psychological violence intrinsic to pictographic communication.

That the human skeleton was itself a hieroglyph.

For his first solo exhibition in L.A., «bright... brighter... brightest,» Matthews maintains the white hieroglyph - style geometric motif that has filled his work since the 1980s, but the California sky seems to have seeped into the background.

Last year, Halsey made headlines with her Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $ 18,000 for a public art installation, The Crenshaw District Hieroglyph Project.

In the front: Carol Bove, Hieroglyph, 2013, courtesy the artist and Maccarone, New York and David Zwirner, New York / London

In primo piano: Carol Bove, Hieroglyph, 2013, Acciaio verniciato a polvere, courtesy the artist and Maccarone, New York and David Zwirner, New York / London

Stretching further back, Ariadne Galleries has an Egyptian bronze Apis bull, with electrum eyes and hieroglyph inscriptions.

The sun's a flying saucer surrounded by rays of elation, foliage throbs, every little cricket, cottage and cow becomes an excited hieroglyph in a leaping black tracery.

Orientated as portraits, the smaller works offer a liaison between bustling ground and a repeated Egyptian hieroglyph like head motif that slips through it.

Scrambling Greek and Egyptian myths of cyclical resuscitation and regeneration, a hieroglyph of Nekhebet appears on the bottom; she is the queen and nurturing guide of the underworld, giving rise to tiny flying Gorgons, numerous Greek dildo dancers and modern acrobats whirling and performing backflips.

Halkin's most recent paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph - like shapes and mottled fields of muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.

Slightly larger and thinner than yoga mats, etched with intricate wording (like a hieroglyph, said Coplan), their function becomes quickly apparent.

The people of the Mayan civilization were very skilled craftsmen who created incredible calendars, art, pottery, agriculture, and hieroglyph writing.

Except for the hieroglyph stairway there are no tall buildings here, but many stèles (memorial obelisk - like stones with inscriptions) in perfect condition and altars.

Unlike its contemporary cuneiform Sumerian, Egyptian Hieroglyph's origin is much Edge Studio provides a large library of commercial voice over practice scripts in a variety of genres such as food and beverage or retail.

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For the finale of their presentation, the students tacked on a 40 - second clip from Stargate, a 1994 movie in which an Egyptologist (James Spader) pushes through the fluidlike surface of the «stargate,» a 20 - foot - wide, hieroglyph - adorned ring providing passage to a parallel world.

Lettuce is one of the most ancient of greens: A lettuce hieroglyph was found in an Egyptian tomb dating back to 4500 BCE.

«The one great hieroglyph, nature,» wrote Eiseley, «is as unreadable as it ever was and so is her equally wild and unpredictable offspring, man.

If one has that, what need has one to scan the hieroglyph of nature?

Not a single hieroglyph mentions a word about ANY Jews ever being held there, let alone escaping across a parted sea.

The act of writing was invented, after all, to convey the sacred: Permanent things must be passed on in a permanent way, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs.

So will the messages of Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, paleolithic cave paintings and lots of other remnants of ancient past cultures.

In «Books» he shows the books themselves — the making, the binding, the paper and our handling of them, our attempts to read and understand what is written on the page and what is written between the lines, our desire to decipher the hieroglyphs that books are, our hopes to find the meaning in the silences.

Apparently, reading ancient hieroglyphs and cave paintings in the here and now tell us more about the truth of the alienated human being than any day to day feeling of ennui while ordering a latte at Starbucks.

Joseph Smith claimed, (now proven false), to have been able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs in the 19th Century, BEFORE the Rosetta Stone was discovered and translated by the French.

-- Check Ancient Egypt hieroglyphs for a start, particularly the Weighing of the Heart ---- In the pictograph, on a scales, is a heart weighed equal to a feather — the feather equals truth — the heart being a decision making process (a conscience), which equals truth ---- How does a conscience equal truth?

We have lots and lots of actual ancient Egyptian religious hieroglyphs — set in stone, and not changed a bit - which tell about their gods.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

Documents in Maya hieroglyphs stated chocolate was used for ceremonial purposes, in addition to everyday life.

Call her a wikipedia politician, it certainly sounds right, but I think she might well be a politician without clear positions either online or offline, whether you catch her on the Web, on her cellphone or in Egyptian hieroglyphs etched into her stone newletter.

The ministry of antiquities said the chamber at the Dahshur royal necropolis, south of Cairo, contained a wooden box engraved with hieroglyphs.

Hieroglyphs contain no vowels, so Brier's pronunciation was mostly guesswork.

Brier, an expert in hieroglyphs, says he isn't certain he pronounced the prayers correctly.

After years of studying hieroglyphs and investigating tombs, Brier had decided that his research would not be complete until he mummified — properly — a human body.

Hieroglyphs nearby indicated her name was Lady K'abel, also known as Lady Waterlily - Hand and Lady Snake Lord.

At the summit Kendall found cartouches of the black pharaoh Taharqa, as well as six panels of hieroglyphs etched in a place where no one — except the gods — could read them.

Just as the probe's namesake Rosetta Stone helped archaeologists translate Egyptian hieroglyphs, researchers hope the ambitious mission will help them decipher the early history of our solar system.

By seeking matches and patterns, Urton hopes to decipher a form of writing as sophisticated as Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Most importantly, the hieroglyphs above the head — part of a formulaic text attested elsewhere at the temple — use a feminine pronoun, a clear indication that the figure is female.

Traces of hieroglyphs are also present above the head.

Images sent back by the camera have revealed hieroglyphs written in red paint and lines in the stone that could be marks left by stone masons when the chamber was being carved (Annales Du Service des Antiquités De L'Égypte, vol 84, ISBN: 978 -977-704-184-3).

«If these hieroglyphs could be deciphered they could help Egyptologists work out why these mysterious shafts were built,» says Richardson.

The magnificence of modern science is often shrouded behind a realm of mathematical hieroglyphs and impenetrable scientific jargon while the most significant results can be at once subtle, yet profound.

Egyptian hieroglyphs and paintings also show the use of this method.

It goes perfectly with this curtain made from Annie Sloan Fabric, Tacit in Duck Egg Blue, designed with hieroglyphs, letters, numbers and shapes inspired by 1930s Lino prints.