Ancient Egyptian cursive and the yet-untranslated hieroglyphics. Known as the Rosetta Stone, this trilingual slab presented an unmatched opportunity to unlock the stories of the Ancient Egyptians.

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 concept of symbols representing words and ideas had taken the art world by storm, imbuing the world with a keen interest in hieroglyphs. Though today, hieroglyphs represent ancient Egyptian ...

Once scholars had managed to translate the ancient Greek, they turned their focus to understanding the hieroglyphics ... According to Art News, former Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass ...

You can see the outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into the stone. There is the royal seal of Mentuhotep IV, a little-known pharaoh who ruled for just two years in ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been ... Archaeology Dr. Josef Wegner shared. “However, ancient tomb robbers damaged the hieroglyphic texts, and not enough survives to read ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics ... many others Ancient Egypt was an influential kingdom in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians were ...

a professor of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania who led the team. "However, the hieroglyphic texts were damaged by ancient tomb robbers and not enough survives ...

Burial chamber unearthed seven meters (23 feet) underground It was discovered at important ancient Egyptian city Abydos ... inside was originally recorded in hieroglyphic texts on plastered ...