Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon
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#2These aren’t glyphs. A glyph is a visual symbol used to represent a character, sound, or idea in writing.
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#3Looks like a giant wireless charger
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#4Mirror: https://archive.is/9IF4W
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#5These aren’t glyphs. A glyph is a visual symbol used to represent a character, sound, or idea in writing.
There are other meanings that don't require the carving to be a form of writing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geoglyph
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#6These aren’t glyphs. A glyph is a visual symbol used to represent a character, sound, or idea in writing.
They're geoglyphs, which are symbols encoded in the earth.
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#7Anyone else instantly picture the Glyph of Gallantry lying amongst jungle vegetation in a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 map?
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#8These aren’t glyphs. A glyph is a visual symbol used to represent a character, sound, or idea in writing.
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.
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#9These aren’t glyphs. A glyph is a visual symbol used to represent a character, sound, or idea in writing.
How do you know this doesn't represent a character, sound, or idea? 2,500 years is a long time ago.