The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the ...

With an Ancient Greek translation directly underneath examples of Demotic and hieroglyphics, there was theoretically everything in place to translate the mysterious Egyptian languages.

Egyptologist Reveals Mysterious Messages Hidden in the Hieroglyphics on a 3,000-Year-Old Obelisk ... “It’s an example proving that Egyptology still holds a lot of things waiting to be ...

Overlooked Hieroglyphics Reveal This Stone Slab Was Part of Ramses II’s Sarcophagus. ... For example, the tomb of Merenptah, who succeeded Ramses II, was similarly robbed, ...

Hieroglyphics were a mystery until this man solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone. ... The word Ramses is a good example of the complexity of the system whose workings Champollion had laid bare.

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

Archaeologists uncovered stones with Egyptian hieroglyphics from over 2,500 years ago, a first-of-its-kind find at Old Dongola, photos show. Dawid F. Wieczorek Photo from the Polish Centre of ...