Sentences with phrase «hieroglyphic carvings»

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They had learned to write in hieroglyphic form, and there existed at the time of the conquest a vast body of writing, as well as stone carvings, but it was almost entirely destroyed.

Their hieroglyphics were carved in stone and also written on paper made from the bark of trees.

A collaboration between the artist and the community in Los Angeles» Crenshaw District, the project involves the construction of multipurpose community meeting spaces decorated with hieroglyphic - style carvings and found materials.

In the 1990s, she began exploring the potential of plaster reliefs, carved with alpha - numeric or hieroglyphic - like marks and painted in earthy - tones to resemble something excavated from antiquity.

Cavemen carved hieroglyphics as a way to tell stories and communicate messages while Ancient Egyptians carved markings and pictures into the sides of tombs to symbolize the belief of what happened to the human spirit after death.