But it was time to lead by example, ... But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with terrible handwriting.

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

“The use of hieroglyphic cryptography allows us to provide a new reading of pharaonic texts,” Olette-Pelletier tells Artnet. “It’s an example proving that Egyptology still holds a lot ...

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 ...