Echoes of Twilight Chords

Have you ever tried to hum a tune to your cat at twilight? It often ends in an echoed meow, a harmony of one paw tapping a melancholic beat against the tune of forgotten cat-acoustics.

Observe this ancient glyph, a symbol perhaps of a great civilization's cheese-plate treaty:

If the ancients could speak, they might ask, "Where is the nearest coffee shop?" Their maps, covered in hieroglyphs, would lead straight past existential crises and into caffeine-fueled clarity.