Noun : the confusing hieroglyphics of advanced mathematics.    From Dictionary.com. 

At the same time the study of hieroglyphs is much more fascinating, and much less difficult, than might be imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

Egyptian The Book of the Dead, written in hieroglyphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations] Reference

In these temple-copies, the poem is sculptured in hieroglyphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

The study of Maya hieroglyphs is no exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primary sources of Maya history - part five] Reference

We see their "hieroglyphs" on numberless seals and images from the ruins of Nineveh or Babylon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference

Are the hieroglyphs of Copan and Palenque identical?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

The pattern was acres and acres of Egyptian hieroglyphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weird Science?] Reference

Separate hieroglyphs must have been preserved in the same way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

B.C., an unmistakable elephant figures among the four hieroglyphs which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

It is designated in the text by two hieroglyphs, which belong together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference

Moreover the hieroglyphs are always the same, have scarcely any variants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference

Now, the hieroglyphs must be phonetic or pictorial, or a mixture of the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

It would seem as if the inventer of the Hittite hieroglyphs had seen those of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

In each plate I have numbered the hieroglyphs, giving each one its own number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

The hieroglyphs are either cut in relief (VI, Fig. 4) or incised (VI, Fig. 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

At the present time we know nothing of the meaning of any of the Maya hieroglyphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

The old language of the Egyptian hieroglyphs actually is not yet quite dead; for, in its.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference

I have previously shown that the Palenque hieroglyphs are read in order from left to right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

They have some thousands of abstract characters, hieroglyphs standing for things or thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

It is interesting specially on account of its hieroglyphs, which I hope to examine subsequently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

We have discussed them repeatedly as hieroglyphs of much that occurs in nature by way of polarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The walls of both chambers have been covered with stucco, and embellished with hieroglyphs and sculptures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

We know by the occurrence of the hieroglyphs on the reverse side of the stone that this is not of Aztec sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

At Palenque again, there are some cases where there is a single horizontal line of hieroglyphs over a pictorial tablet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

Hittite hieroglyphs are so purely native in origin, the graphic system to which they belong must also be purely native.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Fortunately the native artist had the time to sculpture the Yucatec hieroglyphs, which are the proof of its true origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

In its centre is an old temple of the date of Tiberius Cæsar, the hieroglyphs in which are rapidly becoming obliterated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

It is to be noticed how checks on the accuracy of any deciphering of hieroglyphs occur at every point, if we will only use them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

The expense of forming this card catalogue of about 1,500 single hieroglyphs was borne by the Ethnological Bureau of the Smithsonian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

The plates of this copy were then cut up into single hieroglyphs and each single hieroglyph was mounted on a library card, as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference

The advantages of this system are many: for example; a memorandum can easily be taken that two hieroglyphs are alike, thus 2072 = 2020 and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference