Hieroglyph
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A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred carving") is a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs". In Neoplatonism, especially during the Renaissance, a "hieroglyph" was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which Neoplatonists believed actual Egyptian hieroglyphs to be. The word hieroglyphics (τὰ ἱερογλυφικά) may refer to a hieroglyphic script.
List of hieroglyphic scripts
The following scripts have been called "hieroglyphs".
- Anatolian hieroglyphs
- Cretan hieroglyphs
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Mayan hieroglyphs
- Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs
- Olmec hieroglyphs
See also
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