News — Hieroglyphs

We all seek health, good life and happiness. It has been our pleasure to provide a pendant that represents just that. This pendant is our smallest and arguably most powerful one. The pendant has 5 symbols which represent these important values.The Eye of Horus at the top is a healing symbol. It symbolizes protection for the wearer and their strength. In the middle are ancient symbols that represent health, life, and happiness. The bottom is the lotus flower, symbolizing rebirth and rejuvenation. In Egyptian mythology, the sun was born from a lotus.These symbols are beautiful, meaningful and popular. We offer these cartouche pendants in the...

The hieroglyphic language contains more than two thousand symbols, some representing words, others representing full ideas, and others representing sounds (phonetic). Depending on how the symbols is used, the same symbol might represent an idea in one hieroglyphic sentence, and a sound in a different sentence!    Since it is a phonetic language, the symbols represent sounds.  For example. the Basket symbol is a hard “C” sound, used to start the name Carla, or Cleopatra, but  it would not be the correct choice for the name Cindy, since the English letter ‘C’ now represents the soft C, or ‘S’ sound,...

The owner of Discoveries, Steve Collins, travels to Cairo several times each year to meet with the workshop to help them produce the best possible jewelry for our customers.   We order cartouches every week of the year, sending the specific hieroglyphic symbols for each pendant, and our staff in Cairo delivers the orders to the workshop to make sure that each cartouche is made correctly. After a week or so of hand-crafting the orders, our staff then checks the quality before sending them to our warehouse in Colorado, where we make a final check and carefully package    ...