Hieroglyphics Quotes

“Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Picture writing, as in Egyptian hieroglyphics?"
"Very similar."
"What we might call an illustrated comic strip."
"Only without the panels. The panels were never fully deciphered.”
― Clive Cussler, Inca Gold