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Where Do You Find Hieroglyphs?

By Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com

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Where Do You Find Hieroglyphs - Tomb Slabs

Tomb slabs were stele placed in niches and acted as the centre for private funerary offerings. This is the limestone tomb slab of Neferseshenapepy, late Old Kingdom c.2150 BCE, from his tomb at Dendera.

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