The earliest known temples appeared in the last centuries of the predynastic era, along with images that resemble the iconographies of known deities: the falcon that represents Horus and several other gods, the crossed arrows that stand for Neith, and the enigmatic "Set animal" that represents Set.
Two years later came Gnu High, an occasionally enigmatic set that nonetheless featured telling solo contributions from the leader and the pianist Keith Jarrett.
Perhaps the most famous set of red frescoes from Pompeii are those in the so-called "Villa of the Mysteries", in which an enigmatic set of figures perform arcane rituals on a scarlet background.
In this enigmatic novel, set in a town on the Swedish coast, a merman transforms the lives of a young brother and sister.
In this enigmatic novel, set on the eve of the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a provincial engineer, is tasked with removing "every last knucklebone" from the centuries-old cemetery of Les Innocents.
The 50-year-old Andrey Zvyagintsev's last film, The Banishment, was a long, slow, enigmatic movie set in a miserable, unnamed country and showed the influence of his mentors Andrei Tarkovsky and Alexander Sokurov.
There is an enigmatic pageant of scenes: setting the table for supper, listening to the radio, opening the hangar door for the air-sea rescue helicopter (a mesmerically slow and sinuous sequence), migrants having a football match in near darkness and arguing about which nationalities can play, migrants' dead bodies taken ashore by coastguards in white hazmat suits.
Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005) Enigmatic Paris-set thriller with middle-class couple Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche terrorised by creepy videotapes in revenge for the husband's guilty past.
The songs on "Living With War" are straightforward and single-minded, setting aside the allusive, enigmatic quality of Mr. Young's rock classics.
Simply by setting foot in Iraq, the mercurial and enigmatic Mr. Sadr complicated the nation's byzantine politics.
