With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Lina Annab announced the discovery of a Pharaonic hieroglyphic inscription featuring a royal seal (cartouche) belonging to Pharaoh Ramses III (1186–1155 BC) in Wadi ...

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 ...

In the two decades following the discovery, Thomas Young, an Englishman, would go on to deduce part of the hieroglyphic alphabet and Jean-François Champollion, a Frenchman, to decipher the ...