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  2. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia

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    Colors vary, but many glyphs are predominantly one colour or another, or a particular combination (such as red on the top and blue on the bottom). In some cases, two graphically similar glyphs may be distinguished solely by colour, though in other cases it's not known if the choice of colour had any meaning.

  3. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    A fourth, e, was represented by a single hieroglyph in Cleopatra's cartouche and a doubled version of the same glyph in Ptolemy's cartouche. A fifth sound, t , seemed to be written with different signs in each cartouche, but Champollion decided these signs must be homophones , different signs spelling the same sound.

  4. Gosford Glyphs - Wikipedia

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    The Gosford Glyphs, also known as Kariong Hieroglyphs, are a group of approximately 300 Egyptian-style hieroglyphs located in Kariong, Australia. They are found in an area known for its Aboriginal petroglyphs , between Gosford and Woy Woy, New South Wales , within the Brisbane Water National Park .

  5. Blythe Intaglios - Wikipedia

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    One of the notable mythic figures is a 65-to-80-foot-long (20 to 25 m) humanoid figure located next to a second glyph, this of a quadruped resembling a mountain lion. [7] Additionally, 18-foot-tall (5.5 m) figures bearing a likeness to Mastamho and Kataar , the "hero twins of the creation myth," can be seen near Fort Mojave in Arizona.

  6. Rongorongo - Wikipedia

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    22 legible glyphs on a 72-centimetre (28 in) European or American oar blade. In poor condition. One line of text, plus a separate pair of glyphs, on side a; traces of text on side b. W RR14: Honolulu fragment: A 7-centimetre (2.8 in) fragment with 8 glyphs on the one side that has been described. X RR25: Tangata manu (New York birdman) New York

  7. File:Piece 207-103; Thomas Hunter (1922).pdf - Wikipedia

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    This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

  8. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Here, the 'house' glyph stands for the consonants pr. The 'mouth' glyph below it is a phonetic complement: it is read as r, reinforcing the phonetic reading of pr. The third hieroglyph is a determinative: it is an ideogram for verbs of motion that gives the reader an idea of the meaning of the word.

  9. Poppler (software) - Wikipedia

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    Poppler is a fork of Xpdf-3.0, a PDF file viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] The name Poppler comes from " The Problem with Popplers ," an episode of the animated series Futurama .