In other words, English speakers are still writing a permutation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics — which all scholars can agree is mind-blowingly cool. This article originally appeared on PRI.org.

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 ...

A German scholar identified the ancient Egyptian writing as Hebrew in the 1920s. But he failed to identify many letters in the alphabet, leading to implausible translations that were rejected by ...

The Rosetta Stone contains text written in three languages, which made it possible to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Here's how eIt took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta stone.xperts decipher ancient languages. Skip to main ... that was inscribed in three writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphics, ...

His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered in the 19th century, were among the few historical accounts that ...

The writing comprised 17 letters, two of which were damaged. Crucially, they seem to form a complete and understandable sentence written in an ancient Canaanite language spoken at Tel Lachish.

World’s Oldest Alphabet Turns Up in Ancient Syrian Tomb. ... (which is the world’s earliest form of writing, predating Egyptian hieroglyphics and first used more than 5,000 years ago).

CHICAGO One of the stars of the Oriental Institute’s new show, “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond,” is a clay tablet that dates from around 3200 B ...