Surah 44:29
"Neither the sky nor the earth wept for them, nor were they spared."
Claimed Miracle: History / Archeology
APOLOGIST CLAIM
"The verse says 'the heaven and earth did not weep for them (Pharaoh's people)', which mirrors an allegedly discovered ancient Egyptian hieroglyph."
Refutation & Exegesis
The phrase 'the heavens and earth wept' is a ubiquitous poetic idiom used throughout antiquity to describe the deaths of great, beloved figures, signifying monumental cosmic grief. The Quran utilizes this well-known poetic hyperbole to emphasize how utterly unmourned and insignificant the tyrannical Pharaoh actually was in the eyes of God upon his destruction. Attempting to tie a universally recognized poetic trope to a singular, specific undiscovered hieroglyph is speculative at best.
Data mining / Pseudo-correlation
Apologists data-mine deep into obscure archaeological finds to match a singular ancient Egyptian hieroglyph to this verse. They ignore that the earth or sky 'weeping' at a ruler's death is a completely ubiquitous poetic trope in ancient literature worldwide, not a specific archeological proof.