Sentences with phrase «of hieroglyphic»

In 1999, he worked in the conservation assessment and survey of the hieroglyphic stairway at the Mayan Ruins in Copan, Honduras; he also worked in the restoration of first - century statues of Marcus Aurelius and the Gaius Caesar owned by the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

For Everything, Everyday, Halsey transforms part of the Mezzanine gallery with a site - specific environment made of hieroglyphic reliefs set in an interplanetary desert oasis.

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.

Just across the border in Honduras, the sixty stone steps of the Hieroglyphic stairway contain the longest Maya text in existence.

It's that framed square of hieroglyphic - like symbols that we flip to in a magazine, which triggers our smartphones to reveal a company website when scanned.

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.

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.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

I told my husband and he didn't believe me, so he went to the pharmacy and bought the most expensive digital pregnancy test... which told us the same thing the 4 tests prior did, only in words instead of hieroglyphics.

The Rosetta stone was required to unlock the mysteries of hieroglyphics from a mere 5,000 years ago and the world is no closer to understanding the hash marks left by ancient hominins hundreds of thousands of years ago.

In the short space of several generations, they adopted the written language of hieroglyphics and revived the tradition of pyramid building long after the Egyptians abandoned it.

Williams hopes that as well as giving an alternative way of playing, the headset graphics will lead to a new notation for electronic music: adding symbols for filters and special effects to standard musical notation produces «a mass of hieroglyphics», he says.

The system of hieroglyphics confirms that a lot of primeval Egyptians were literate.

Darnell noted that the discovery of hieroglyphics is not new.

Papyrus collection room, originally collected by Drovetti and later used by Champollion during his studies for the decoding of the hieroglyphics.

Like I said, this old «dog» has learned new tricks: Drake can now clear out vines and overgrown vegetation using a machete; he takes charcoal rubbings of hieroglyphics; he snaps pictures of the environment with a camera he carries around in his backpack.

Moreover, he could not have made his leap into color for its own sake had he not already made painting into a kind of hieroglyphics.

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.»

As Lala would say of Hieroglyphics I: Koi ashiq kisi mehbooba se (1995), it was drafted in that vulnerable realm as a «private love letter.»

Thousands of years ago their language was alphabetic, but it transitioned into a kind of hieroglyphics only using logos from private companies.

Not exact matches

The difference — the real difference — isn't easy to spot, but here it is: all that activity, all those busy people, gallons of coffee, whiteboard hieroglyphics and lines of code were triggered when one person had an idea.

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.

For example, the theory of evolution is contradicted by the existence of technically advanced pyramids that we could not even re-create today, or by ancient hieroglyphics that depict our solar system before Galileo ever made his discoveries, whereas these things fit perfectly well within the Christian account that acknowledges the antediluvian and / or pre-Adamic worlds.

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.

His hieroglyphics have been proven LIES, as well as many of of his claims.

Alleged to have been written in hieroglyphics, it was translated by Joseph Smith, a very meagerly educated young man, by means of the Urim and Thummim found along with the plates.

For many centuries there lay side by side in one of the famous archaeological sites two enormous obelisks, cut with great skill out of the living rock of Egypt, dressed down to the proper shape, then deeply inscribed with hieroglyphic characters.

Even before the dynastic period she had achieved the art of writing, using the picture or hieroglyphic method.

A blury replication of which, appeared to be Egyptian Hieroglyphics..

It is found as hieroglyphics on the walls of old tombs.

«The Book of Abraham»: Before scientists were able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, Joseph Smith claimed that he could read hieroglyphics and said that a collection of them were actually «The Book of Abraham».

The premise of Signs is that the large, hieroglyphic crop circles that show up in fields throughout the world are the work of menacing extraterrestrials.

Joseph Smith translated the «Book of Abraham» from some Egyptian hieroglyphics before Egyptian hieroglyphics were understood.

Hieroglyphics suggest that the ancient Egyptians were using yeast and the process of fermentation to produce alcoholic beverages and to leaven bread over 5,000 years ago.

Tiger nuts have also been found in the tombs of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs and some hieroglyphics depict offerings of tiger nuts to the gods.

All that exist today are writings about their descendants; Mayan hieroglyphics, which are slowly being transliterated; and ethnological observations of the present Maya Indians, whose food habits have changed little in twenty centuries.

Even for someone who consumes a ton of NBA basketball, the diagrams look like hieroglyphics.

Of course, they could have written the bill in Mayan and illustrated each clause with hieroglyphics.

Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization's hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.

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.

The development of papyrus with the hieroglyphic writing system contributed to the development of Egypt as one of the superpowers of the ancient world.

Like the Rosetta Stone that scholars used to decode hieroglyphics, researchers trained the algorithm with more than 4,600 T cell receptors and then used it to correctly assign 81 percent of the human T cells and 78 percent of mouse T cells to one of 10 different viral epitopes.

For centuries, the overgrown landscape has protected most of the remains of the Maya who once tamed it — yielding slowly to modern scientists seeking to learn more about the ancient civilization known for its sophisticated hieroglyphic script, art, architecture and mathematics.

FOSSILISED sea urchins have been found embedded in the walls of medieval churches, embellished with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and even shaped into Palaeolithic hand - axes.

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.

The ancient covers are made of wood and adorned with «breathtaking decorations and paintings of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics,» says the Israel Antiquities Authority.

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

Still, the hieroglyphic characters appeared clearly in Reisner's photographs, and Kendall concluded that they referred to the coronation in 600 B.C. of the Nubian king Aspelta.

For clues to the psychological health of members of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, researchers have turned to «Dispute Over Suicide,» a poem in hieroglyphics commissioned by a ruler in about 2000 B.C.