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The Egyptian hieroglyph Townsite-city-region is Gardiner sign listed no. O49 for the intersection of a town's streets. In some Egyptian hieroglyph books it is called a city plan. [1] It is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as a determinative in the names of town or city placenames. Also, as an ideogram in the Egyptian word "city", niwt.
In Unicode, the block Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2009) includes 1071 signs, organization based on Gardiner's list. As of 2016, there is a proposal by Michael Everson to extend the Unicode standard to comprise Möller's list. [1]
This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt
Archaeologists discovered an ancient stone slab with 123 hieroglyphic symbols in Mexico, revealing the founding of a town in 569 AD and details about Maya rulers.
Paintings with symbols on Naqada II pottery (3500–3200 BCE) Hieroglyphs may have emerged from the preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. For example, symbols on Gerzean pottery from c. 4000 BC have been argued to resemble hieroglyphic writing. [19] Designs on tokens from Abydos, carbon dated to c. 3400 –3200 BC.
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
Ancient Christian saints by city (3 C) A. Aksumite cities (6 P) ... Pages in category "Ancient cities" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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