| ▲ | Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon(nytimes.com) |
| 26 points by wglb 3 days ago | 9 comments |
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| ▲ | jnrk 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Mirror: https://archive.is/9IF4W |
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| ▲ | andsoitis 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| These aren’t glyphs. A glyph is a visual symbol used to represent a character, sound, or idea in writing. |
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| ▲ | yorwba 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are other meanings that don't require the carving to be a form of writing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geoglyph | |
| ▲ | applicative 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The proper glyph concept pertains to something cut into something or out of something as background; it is essentially of a 3-d phenomenon and makes no sense apart from it; the concept has nothing whatever to do with writing, which is almost never like that. A piece of lead type is indeed a glyph, and this is how you use it to print, but the printed text has no glyphs. | |
| ▲ | ranger_danger an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How do you know this doesn't represent a character, sound, or idea? 2,500 years is a long time ago. | |
| ▲ | aa-jv 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They're geoglyphs, which are symbols encoded in the earth. | | |
| ▲ | iforgetti 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Idk why this is getting down voted, the article identifies them as geoglyphs in the second paragraph. |
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| ▲ | tigerlily 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anyone else instantly picture the Glyph of Gallantry lying amongst jungle vegetation in a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 map? |
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| ▲ | vednig 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Looks like a giant wireless charger |
