Sentences with phrase «hieroglyphic inscriptions»

Similarly to how the pyramid complexes of ancient Egypt were developed by successive generations of rulers, many of the buildings that survive to this day are royal tombs that incorporate hieroglyphic inscriptions and personal monuments.

Hieroglyphic inscriptions on the coffins indicated that both men were the sons of an unnamed local governor and had mothers with the same name, Khnum - aa.

A British expeditionary group subsequently scanned the pinnacle's summit through binoculars and made out traces of hieroglyphic inscriptions but didn't hazard a guess about how the inscriptions got there.

Hieroglyphic inscriptions offered clues about the role of Maya queens, too.

Not exact matches

We have ancient cuneiform, hieroglyphics and other inscriptions which were *** cast in stone *** and have not changed a bit either.

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

The central complex has five major plazas, including the Hieroglyphic Stairway Plaza, which has the longest known Mayan inscription (consisting of over 1800 glyphs).

In the painting Signes sobre matèria / Signs on matter the surface is covered with seemingly rapid notes of a formula or equation, an inscription of ancient text or fragmented hieroglyphics.