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 predates Linear A and Linear B, indeed any other writing in Europe, but remains undeciphered since its discovery at the beginning of ...

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 ...

Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of ...

is especially evident in hieroglyphic writing during the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Dynasties. Burial spells were regularly mutilated by their scribes – animal pictograms deprived of legs ...

At its centre are two players in elaborate headgear surrounded by hieroglyphic writing. Experts are now analysing the writing to decipher its possible meaning. The 40kg-stone (88lb) was found by ...

Kamal’s dictionary was completed 100 years ago, earning him the title Pasha, awarded by King Fouad. However, he died shortly ...

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.