who started studying the Rosetta Stone in 1822. Champollion had extensive knowledge about Egypt and even understood the Coptic language, which had descended from ancient Egyptian. He found that ...

An Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus Became Famous Across ... they still don’t know why the Xiaohe buried it with the dead. A ...

who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it was ransacked and burned to the ground. Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and preserved ...

Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris, god of the underworld. Many of history’s earliest pharaohs also chose to be interred there inside a sprawling ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

For centuries, the Rosetta Stone ... to translate ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics and while that remains undisputed, the stone itself is actually one of many mass-produced stone tablets for temples ...

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood, the hieroglyphs could then be translated into modern ...