Innocent brought from elsewhere Domitian's obelisk, with his name and those of Vespasian and Titus done in hieroglyphics.

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Like the painting, which the Viennese artist completed in 1907, the doll is dressed in a golden gown lavishly patterned with Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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It makes you learn dead languages, such as obscure weather hieroglyphics.

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In our neighborhood there was no other graffiti to speak of in those days, just this, the remnants of the hieroglyphics of our simple street games.

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Besides the intrinsic value of cursive writing, some are worried that phasing it out may make texts written in cursive go the way of hieroglyphics, as McGrann pointed out.

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