The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

The Rosetta Stone played a vital role in researchers deciphering hieroglyphics. It was found in 1799, but wasn't fully ...

Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

A series of Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many ... In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument.

like a stenographer's shorthand of hieroglyphic. You learn Coptic, which is the ancient Egyptian language written in the Greek alphabet. Now there are great debates about how to read these texts.

Considered to be one of the earliest forms of written communication, hieroglyphics were the formal writing system used by the ...

The hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt are as iconic as the famed pyramids, the no-nosed sphinx, and the seemingly infinite number ...

Nearly 4000 years ago a hieroglyphic script was used on Crete which ... at the Università degli Studi di Bologna. An expert on both ancient undeciphered scripts and the invention of writing, she is ...

The temple, which measures around 450 feet in length and roughly 250 feet wide is perhaps the best-preserved in Egypt.