pictographs (hieroglyphics)

Examples of pictographs (hieroglyphics) in the following topics:

• Art in the Early Dynastic Period

  • Media ranged from papyrus drawings to pictographs (hieroglyphics) and included funerary sculpture carved in relief and in the round from sandstone, quartz diorite, and granite.

• The Minoans

  • The Egyptian hieroglyphs served as a model for Minoan pictographic writing, from which the famous Linear A and Linear B writing systems later developed.

• The Book of the Dead

  • For instance, Pyramid Texts were written in an unusual hieroglyphic style, were exclusive to those of royal privilege, and saw the afterlife as being in the sky.
  • The Book of the Dead, in contrast, was painted on expensive papyrus, written in cursive hieroglyph, and saw the afterlife as being part of the underworld.
  • Later in the Third Intermediate Period, the Book of the Dead started to appear in hieratic script as well as in the traditional hieroglyphics.
  • The hieroglyphs were in columns separated by black lines, and illustrations were put in frames above, below, or between the columns of text.
  • During the New Kingdom, the Book of the Dead was typically written in cursive hieroglyphs.

• Balanced Scorecards

  • The balanced scorecard represents performance pictographically; its original design was a table broken up into sections, or perspectives, that generally included financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth.
  • Today, this second-generation balanced scorecard is often referred to as a "strategy map", but the vernacular "balanced scorecard" is still used to refer to anything consistent with a pictographic strategic management tool.

• Rock Art in the Sahara

  • With the help of these pictographs and petroglyphs, archaeologists and scientists have begun to piece together information about the complex societies that once inhabited the region.
  • It contains Neolithic pictographs of people swimming that are estimated to have been created between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, when wet climatic conditions maintained bodies of water deep enough for swimming and diving.

• The Nile River

  • In the ancient Egyptian language, the Nile is called Ḥ'pī or Iteru, meaning "great river," represented by these hieroglyphs.

• Visuals

  • The evolution of communication is largely visual, with pictographs dating back thousands of years.

• Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

  • In the Southwestern United States, numerous pictographs and petroglyphs were created.
  • The creations of the Fremont culture, the Anasazi, and later tribes can be seen at present day Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel and Horseshoe Canyon, among other sites.

• Art of the Bronze Age

  • According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt (hieroglyphs), the Near East (cuneiform), and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture (Linear B), had viable writing systems.
  • The illustrations and proportions of their human figures were developed; and Egyptian imagery, symbolism, and basic hieroglyphic writing were created.
  • The Narmer Palette, named after Egyptian King Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archeological find, dating from about the 3,100 BCE, containing some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found.

• Tutankhamun and Ramses II

  • His cartouches - hieroglyphs depicting his royal name - are prominently displayed on marker stones, statues, remains of palaces and temples, and even in buildings that he did not actually construct.
  • Tutankhamun's burial chamber contained beautiful works of art, text and hieroglyphics.