Hieroglyphics are found on seals, plaques, tombs, pottery and walls on ancient Egyptian remains which tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing, everyday life and culture.

Some hieroglyphs represent both a word and a sound. Ideograms portray idealized objects, such as domestic animals, houses, or birds, while phonograms are signs representing words. The designation of ...

A LARGE gateway dating back 2,100 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient Egyptian town. The secretive entrance, found in the historic town of Athribis, near the modern city of Soh… ...

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have been deciphered, thanks to the work of French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier. The monument, which once ...

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 ...

They are part of a new book offering fresh translations of Egyptian hieroglyphics by Toby Wilkinson, an Egyptologist at the University of Cambridge. For the book, called “ Writings From Ancient Egypt ...

Because Champollion “knew Coptic, …. he could figure out the sound value of hieroglyphs from the correspondence between the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Greek translation on the Rosetta Stone ...

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Found in an ancient temple dedicated to the Egyptian god Amun, the statue depicts Aspelta, who was the ruler of the Kush kingdom between 593 B.C. and 568 B.C. Some of Aspelta's predecessors had ...

A chart at the entrance of the exhibition pairs a column of hieroglyphs with a column of emojis. The similarities are uncanny: There’s no need for translation.

Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time Translated from hieroglyphics on monuments, tombs and papyri, the book will present tales few outside of academia have read ...