The mystery of why there were two coffins was solved relatively easily when archaeologists translated the hieroglyphics.

当考学家翻译这些象形文字时，为什么有两具棺材的谜团就相对容易地解开了。

In the left-hand corner is a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line with their arms touching.

纸的左上角有一个有神秘意味的怪字，象四个联接的十字形。

Some used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics.

一些族群使用图形进行写被称作象形文字。

Doctors are famous for writing prescriptions that look like gobbledygook or ancient hieroglyphics.

医生的处方笔记看天，或的象形文字。

European scholars now set about the task of understanding the mysterious hieroglyphic script.

欧洲学者立即着手破译神秘的象形文字。

The structure, known as the Southern Tomb, includes a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles.

这座被称为“南部墓室”的建筑包括迷宫般的走廊，上面装饰着象形雕刻和瓦片。

The innovation of the hieroglyphic writing system and the emergence of Memphis as the new seat of power.

象形文字系统的革新以及孟菲斯市作为新的权力中心的出现。

The ancient Egyptians wrote using a kind of alphabet called hieroglyphics, which were single pictures that represented entire words or ideas.

埃及人使用一种叫做象形文字的字母进行写，这种字母表完整的语言或想法的一张图片。

Was it not so, O Don Miguel! thou Chilian whale, marked like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back!

唐.米格尔呵! 你这智利的大鲸呀! 背上象一只乌龟似的刻了神秘的象形文字!

I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.

而特别教我想到上密西西比河堤那个著名的象形文字的断崖上，那块刻有印第安字体的石碑，它给我的印象真深刻。

An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.

我对于这位素昧平生的凯瑟琳顿时发生兴趣，我便开始辨认她那已褪色的难认的怪字了。