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 ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ARTIST AND TEACHER OF HIEROGLYPHICS, HODA ABDELAZIZ, SAYING:"The beauty of hieroglyphics is that each symbol has a meaning. The symbol represents something in nature and shows how ...

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

The story of how the hieroglyphic language was deciphered to unlock a window on the lives of ancient Egyptians is the subject of an exhibition opening this week at the British Museum. The display ...

https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.69.1.0009 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.69.1.0009 Copy URL With this essay, Elena Schneider won ...

A research team led by Petra M. Goedegebuure from the University of Chicago has presented a groundbreaking study on the word used for “city” in the Luwian language, spoken in ancient Anatolia. This ...

In Depth'1822. Hieroglyphs Deciphered' (2/5). They were the remains of a language that had been dead since the 4th century and the closing of the temples of ancient Egypt. Before French Egyptologist ...

The key to ancient Egypt: 200 years ago, the Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of hieroglyphs. Coincidence played the main role in the archaeological thriller. On July 19, 1799, French soldiers ...