Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...

For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians—known as hieroglyphics—has fascinated generations of archeologists. Its precise origins are uncertain. One ancient Egyptian legend holds ...

At the turn of the 19th century, Napoleon’s armies uncovered a remarkable object near the Egyptian town of el-Rashid: a large, gray slab containing three blocks of the same text in three different ...

Among other things, reading hieroglyphics was a lot of work. There’s a bit of debate about the origin of the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Some believe it’s a proverb coined by the ...

The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser ...

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...