Modern man no longer communicates via cave painting, yet hieroglyphs may be making a comeback -- thanks to the cell phone. Colorado native Kai Staats has invented a new language for cell phones that ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ARTIST AND TEACHER OF HIEROGLYPHICS, HODA ABDELAZIZ, SAYING:"The beauty of hieroglyphics is that each symbol has a meaning. The symbol represents something in nature and shows how ...

The story of how the hieroglyphic language was deciphered to unlock a window on the lives of ancient Egyptians is the subject of an exhibition opening this week at the British Museum. The display ...

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 ...

My research project, From Sherds of Pottery to Open Egyptological Data, aims to promote the digital research of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. I am an Egyptologist from my background and a ...

In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was discovered, allowing historians to understand the now millenia-old hieroglyphic language from ancient Egypt. To celebrate the discovery ...

A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible. https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...

In Depth'1822. Hieroglyphs Deciphered' (2/5). They were the remains of a language that had been dead since the 4th century and the closing of the temples of ancient Egypt. Before French Egyptologist ...

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 ...