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Any internal organs removed during the process were typically placed in canopic jars, each featuring an iconographic lid with one of the four sons of the Egyptian god Horus to protect each organ.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
9 Nov. 2024 -
And unlike the cylinder seals, the hundreds of iconographic signs attributed to proto-cuneiform have only ever been found on tablets in southern Iraq.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
5 Nov. 2024
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Writing systems, emerging around 3,500 BCE, evolved into hieroglyphic script on papyrus, stone, and coffins.—
Costa Beavin Pappas,
ARTnews.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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In the middle of the 19th century, little was known about this advanced culture—which calculated lunar, solar, and Venusian cycles, and invented hieroglyphic writing and the concept of the number zero with hardly any tools.—
Anna Lagos,
WIRED,
2 Nov. 2024
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The three prosecutors’ approaches are illustrative of the tensions and political climate surrounding the death penalty in California and elsewhere, said political scientist Austin Sarat, a death penalty opponent who has studied the issue at Amherst College in Massachusetts.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Jan. 2025
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In response, Baldoni’s counsel has alleged that the text messages illustrative of the smear campaign in the Times article were cherry-picked and taken out of context.—
Nicole Page,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Pictographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictographic. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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