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nounwriting that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
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nouna writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
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- young British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
- hieroglyphic resembling hieroglyphic writing
- hieroglyphic writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- hieroglyph writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- hieratic a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
- jean francois champollion Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
- hieratic script a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
- rosetta stone a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics
- hieroglyphical resembling hieroglyphic writing
- champollion Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)