sorry to interrupt whatever you're doing but an engineer type crashed into the something awful linguistics thread to just ask some questions about hieroglyphs (and also call the entire field an unconvincing fraud):
once, when i was studying ancient greek, my physics major acquaintance legit said he basically knew greek because they used greek letters in physics formulas.
this is so funny considering how aggressively proprietary tech is now. like you can't even take an iphone apart and put it back together without bricking it. could use some legislative engineers on that
anyway if you like to gawk at drama SA is worth $10, recently there have also been appearances by a guy who thinks turning off AI art generators is genocide and someone who believes doctor who is real
but honestly dwrp drama has the potential for the best kind of drama— the kind where everyone is just unreasonably invested so extremely minor stakes get turned into epic conflicts
crazy how much inscribed pottery survived though when you're up there it's very easy to imagine how you'd lose ruins in the mountains, once it's overgrown... anyway I had a good chuckle about hieroglyphics just being decorative, amazing
I was going to say I would gladly bend the knee to any king who made their coat of arms a perfect phonetic pun but I realized that's the plot of a discworld novel
Apparently it's hard to tell because the way it's written is in a style that changes the orientation of every line, both in the way in which the letters face, and the direction in which it should be read.
yeah I think they lack the level of confident consensus required to state what it says on the sign. lots of the other inscriptions were presented with translations but the earlier artifacts had vague descriptions instead
dat lion gate
they've done their best to make it wheelchair accessible too, I was impressed
snek