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Here’s what ‘LOL’ looks like in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics – Digital Market News
Macquarie University
A new AI-powered tool from Google decodes ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and even lets you translate modern words and emojis into the 5,000-year-old symbols.
A “LOL,” I learned, would have taken a lot more characters back in the day of the pharaohs — a string of 12 that includes images of a couple of birds and a lower leg, according to the platform. And the face-palm emoji looks like a guy head-planting, or something.
World Emoji Day Friday might have just gotten a lot…
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