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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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The ostraca were written in hieroglyphic scripts, along with Egyptian demotic and Greek.—
Andrea Margolis,
Fox News,
3 Mar. 2025
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Written in three scripts—Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic—the stone allowed scholars, most notably Jean-François Champollion in the early 19th century, to decipher the meaning of hieroglyphs for the first time.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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These are just illustrative examples using the existing plans and may not be representative, given that Republicans are considering creating a new IDR plan without any student loan forgiveness.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Still, there was something illustrative about all the confusion and the way Carpenter’s act became a kind of Rorschach test.—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Pictographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictographic. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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