Even if you don’t know anything about the Sumerians, how have you never seen Hieroglyphics before?

  • wjrii@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I know enough to say confidently that it’s a name. The loop around it is a “cartouche,” which is almost exclusively used for royal names. I’m less certain it’s Ramesses III, but it seems to track.

    Or, it’s a two hundred thousand year old cone-headed alien. Y’know. 50/50.