Research is revealing the hieroglyphic texts from within the tomb of an Egyptian scribe. A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the ...

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have been deciphered, thanks to the work of French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier. The monument, which once ...

Life in ancient Egypt had been a mystery for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta stone. A new exhibition at The British Museum in London explores how the stone was decoded and celebrates ...

Hieroglyphics were a mystery until this man solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone. Jean-François Champollion's genius tactics deciphered the Stone's code in September 1822, opening up access to ...

Egyptian Hieroglyphics [photomechanical print] Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. Click to view ...

Art World The Hieroglyphics of the Ancient Maya Have a Lot to Tell Us About Art Today—and a New Lecture Series Will Explain How. Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer ...