Marcello a. canuto , director of tulane 's middle american research institute , examines hieroglyphics at the la corona dig site in guatemala
美国杜兰大学中美洲研究所的马尔塞鲁-克努托,正在分析在危地马拉的拉科罗纳考古遗址发现的象形文字
Here I am , stripped bare , in a town where the signs are strange , unfamiliar hieroglyphics , with no friends to talk to , in short , without any distraction .
At the time , no one in america could read hieroglyphics , but when professional egyptologists first saw facsimiles of smith 's papyrus , they recognised them as fragments from an ancient egyptian book of the dead that bore no relation to his translation .