A hieroglyphic writing system used by pre-colonial Mi'kmaq, that was observed by missionaries from the 17th to 19th centuries, is thought to have developed independently.
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For a decade beginning 1988, she organized 13 workshops, along with Nikolai Grube and Frederico Fahsen, on hieroglyphic writing for them in Guatemala and Mexico.
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Inspired by his work with ancient hieroglyphic writing systems, he envisioned a communication program in which a group of ideas could be represented by one single picture.
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The aforementioned use of hieroglyphic writing in pre-colonial Mi'kmaq society shows that Mi'kmaq was one of the few Native American languages to have a writing system before European contact.
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Kircher claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Egyptian language, but most of his assumptions and translations in this field were later found to be nonsensical.
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Morley made extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza that he directed on behalf of the Maya hieroglyphic writing, and wrote popular accounts on the Maya for a general audience.
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Egyptian hieroglyphic writing does not normally indicate vowels, unlike cuneiform, and for that reason has been labelled by some an " abjad " alphabet, i . e ., an alphabet without vowels.
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Hawass said the style of the hieroglyphic writing and the mud-brick and limestone construction date the pyramid to the 8th Dynasty, about 2173 B . C . to 2160 B . C.
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Twenty years later, the workshop expanded into what is known as the Maya Meetings at Texas, and includes a symposium of research papers by major scholars and the Forum on Hieroglyphic Writing.
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Hawass speculated that the style of the hieroglyphic writing and the mud-brick and limestone construction date the pyramid to the 8th Dynasty, about 2173 B . C . to 2160 B . C.
