Meghan O'Rourke

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

American Poet

Riz Ahmed

I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

British Musician

CeeLo Green

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

American Musician

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

British Author

Neil Peart

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

Canadian Musician

Jane Birkin

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

English Actress

Scarlett Moffatt

Everyone thinks that hieroglyphics are really old but if you think about how the world's going now, I think they are just emojis.

English Entertainer

Cecil B. DeMille

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

American Producer

David Hare

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

English Playwright

Understand that hieroglyphic refers specifically to ancient Egyptian symbols, not all ancient scripts.

Ancient Origin

Hieroglyphics often represent objects and ideas, similar to an elaborate picture code.

Image-Based

Remember that hieroglyphics are not a simple alphabet; each symbol can have multiple meanings.

Not Alphabetic

When used as an adjective, 'hieroglyphic' often refers to items or texts from ancient Egypt.

Cultural Relic

'Hieroglyphic' can describe something that looks like it could be from an ancient script.

Resembling Ancients

In modern terms, 'hieroglyphic' describes anything complex or hard to understand; it's not just about scripts.

Metaphorical Usage

Use 'hieroglyphic' in informal contexts to emphasize confusion or difficulty in reading something.

Colloquial Sense

 we need to understand the framework on which everything else must be based. Playing with toys is great. Understanding how to keep our life-support systems going is great. But fundamentally, the thing that we need to change in the way that we talk about physics, is we need to understand that physics isn't out there with weird people and strange hieroglyphics

The fascinating physics...

 were able to crack the hieroglyphic code and for the first time understand the meaning of the ancient Egyptian language it's an object that's important to all of humanity it's important for all of us to have access to to seeing an object that's that's as significant as the Rosetta Stone and I think that's why we

Egypt Wants its...

 They carry some hieroglyphic inscription very faintly visible here, which would indicate that they were carved and set up in some sort of building which dates to the reign of Tutankhamun. It's exciting, because that gives us a sort of a ballpark for the time when this site was busy and active and important

How Tutankhamun Got His...

 of validating these particular readings but if more and more of these readings start making sense and if more if longer and longer sequences are appeared to be correct then we know that we're on the right track so today we can write a word such as Ted in Egyptian hieroglyphics

A Rosetta Stone for the...

 I don't have a photographic memory, and nor is my head a static gallery of sensibly collected think pieces. It's more that I've got this ever-evolving language of hieroglyphics that I've developed and can understand fluently and think deeply with. but I struggle to translate.

Three ideas. Three...

 hieroglyphs scholars were able to crack the hieroglyphic code and for the first time understand the meaning of the ancient Egyptian language it's an object that's important to all of humanity it's important for all of us to have access to to seeing an object that's that's as

Egypt Wants Treasures...

 I walked in to school. And a teacher came up to me and handed me a piece of paper. I couldn't read any of it -- hieroglyphics, it could have been -- because it was Kanji, Chinese characters adapted into the Japanese language. Asked him what this said.

Smash fear, learn...

 This day, for me, was the day that my whole life started. I learned to navigate in two days -- and this is someone who hates numbers and sees them as hieroglyphics. It opened up avenues and opportunities to me that I could never have imagined.

Stop being a bystander...

 in addition to mathematical concepts the ancient egyptians also created written languages to describe the world around them the oldest and probably most well-known of these is hieroglyphic writing

Ancient Egypt 101 PIPE...

 writing in Mesoamerica hieroglyphs in fact much of what we know about ancient Maya civilization comes from deciphering hieroglyphic characters inscribed in pottery stone slabs and other ruins