hieroglyphic vs unreadable

hieroglyphic

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

noun
  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

unreadable

adj
  • That cannot be read or is not easy to read. 

  • Not able to be read—i.e. accessed or played—by some technical device. 

  • Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading. 

How often have the words hieroglyphic and unreadable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )