Sentences with phrase «hieroglyphics on»

«The old ways of leadership, the old rules, might as well be hieroglyphics on a cave wall,» says Nair, author of Strategic Business Transformation: The 7 Deadly Sins to Overcome.
«The old ways of leadership, the old rules, might as well be hieroglyphics on a cave wall,» says Mohan Nair, author of «Strategic Business Transformation: The 7 Deadly Sins to Overcome.»
When I was in law school, there were those who took notes on laptop, those who took orderly notes on paper, those who scribbled hieroglyphics on the backs of cases, those who used three colours of pens and highlighters, and a brave few who took no notes at all.
I could say something snarky like» Yer all pansies, I used to toggle binary programs into an Altair MITS on the front panel and read the output from the blinky lights»... or mention the time I learned «APL» out of curiosity (and wrote a program about 40 characters long that did about 5 pages worth of work — but they don't call it a «write only» language for nothing, the next day I couldn't read it... Yeah, that APL, the one that needs a custom keyboard with hieroglyphics on it... Ah, the days... I'm SO glad they are gone
Trekking through the Amazonian jungle, I stumbled across an ancient training plan, written in hieroglyphics on the wall of an temple from a long lost civilization.
The mummies» tomb was found undisturbed in 1907, and they became known as the «two brothers» as hieroglyphics on both coffins referred to the same mother.
It is found as hieroglyphics on the walls of old tombs.

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BTW, Joseph Smith translated the golden plates (which were written in what he insisted was «reformed Egyptian» hieroglyphics - something no other linguist in history has ever heard of) behind a curtain while dictating the translation to a secretary on the other side of the curtain.
Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at...
Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
That new DNA evidence «proves the hieroglyphic text [on the mummies» coffins] to be accurate,» at least in saying the mummified men had the same mother, says Egyptologist and study coauthor Campbell Price, curator of the Egypt and Sudan collections at the Manchester Museum in England.
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.
It features shapes on textured lines in a style that brings to mind hieroglyphics.
We drank tea every day at 4 p.m., and Ahmed tried to give us lessons on hieroglyphics and mythology.
Their hieroglyphics were carved in stone and also written on paper made from the bark of trees.
Talk on hieroglyphics.
The hieroglyphics depicted on the enormous columns provide an educational and grand insight into Egypt's rich history.
Their secrets remain forever hidden in the mysterious hieroglyphics that are still visible on the walls.
Based on our understanding of Ancient Greek and Demotic, researchers were able to identify patterns in Egyptian hieroglyphics to decipher the lost language — and now a popular language learning software exists in its honor.
In her work with this word being its title, the artist Srividya Kannan Ramachandran invites you on «a hermeneutic meditation of hieroglyphics through which you can perceive the ancient light at the end of a modern tunnel.»
In his telling, Turner describes the «hieroglyphic characters» that appeared to him on cornstalks and that acted as the divine inspiration for the revolt.
The female subjects of the paintings, all in profile as if in a hieroglyphic stance, are ambiguous and almost without history, often in transit, walking or waiting and on the brink of something new.
The artist was outspoken and received no support from the state for his work, relying on sales in the west of his pared - down landscapes and portraits of hieroglyphic stick men.
He moves toward the hieroglyphic, so - called neo-primitive pictographs, symbols and patterns, usually in black on white, that would become his signature style; this scheme's noticeably male stick figures seem at once powerful and hapless, as if they caused the chaos that swirls around them.
The drawing contains a bird (identified in Basquiat's distinctive handwriting as GEESE) perched above some hieroglyphic - like symbols — a motif the artist later xeroxed and incorporated into another series of works focusing on iconography from ancient Egypt.
Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letterbased work from gestural, abstract, calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.
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.
Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letter - based work from gestural, abstract, calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.
The artist likens the particular pattern of erosion on each leaf to hieroglyphics, reading in them a unique «calligraphy of disaster.»
Created through an intricate process, the 18 works on paper in this exhibition serve as a foil to the large painting also on view, the stark shapes of which recall archaic hieroglyphic text.
There are many means of doing so absent a suspect's confession; for example, did the alleged cartellists resort to mask and disguise when communicating (codes or hieroglyphics), did they apply exceptional measures to ensure that information otherwise disseminated was suppressed (use of pay - as - you - go mobiles, meetings in McDonald's on the A12) and did they purport to their customer that they were in competition while they colluded (certifying in the tender that there was no contact)?
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