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adobe
Adobe is a mixture of mud and straw that is dried into bricks in the sun and used for building, especially in hot countries. -
hieroglyphic hittite
an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, written in a pictographic script in Syria c1200–c600 b.c.: the same language as written in cuneiform in Anatolia is known as Luwian. -
hieroglyphology
the study of hieroglyphic writing. -
hittite
a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c. -
maya
the power, as of a god, to produce illusions. -
rosetta stone
a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.