A s English speakers, it’s pretty much a guarantee that we have the alphabet ingrained in our memory, in order, from a very ...

yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though decoding the letters would take another decade ...

Using this handy grid, try to spell your name using Egyptian hieroglyphics. Each symbol stands for a different letter, just like an English alphabet. If you want to be very clever, see if you can ...