The grave robbers sacked the tomb, and didn't leave any remains of the king's mummy or sarcophagus behind, Wegner said.

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated ...

Archaeologists Discover a Mysterious Royal Tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh; 'Not Enough Survives To Read the King's Name' ...

No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without being able to read the 19 numbers that form the base of their numbering system. Can you figure out their numbering system?

He determined that written Maya, like Egyptian hieroglyphics ... Before all the glyphs could be read aloud in the original Maya, researchers needed to complete Yuri Knorosov's phonetic decipherment.

Ancient Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Before it was discovered, archaeologists couldn’t read Hieroglyphs or Demotic, but they could read ancient Greek! By comparing the three texts ...

Knowledge of how to read Hieroglyphic had all but disappeared ... for example,” Prof Kanawati said. “Deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs did not only enrich linguistics, but it also laid the ...