Sentences with phrase «of hieroglyphic writing»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Darnell concluded that hieroglyphic was not a slow development of writing as previously believed.

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.

As we see in the opening credits of Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, we've gone from cave paintings to hieroglyphics to the written word to the printing press to the typewriter and currently...

«The Armageddon Chord is about an ancient evil song written in hieroglyphics buried beneath tons of sand in the Egyptian desert.

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

The earlier transition from Tomlin's hieroglyphics to Newman's zips makes sense, too, as written signs become signs of something human — or inhuman.

Episode 4: A Report of the Committee is comprised of a digitally distributed installation view of The Art of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing, a 1971 exhibition at the Carpenter Center; a floor - to - ceiling curtain segment made of cream - pink silk chiffon; and the original 1960 Report document placed inside a vitrine sited in relation to the curtain.

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