Hieroglyphs could be written vertically ... Egyptians did not have symbols for vowels (‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’ or ‘u’), but the alphabet below includes the closest sounds.

Arts writer Mike Devlin picks his favourite upcoming events, including Carmina Burana, the choral masterpiece from German composer Carl Orff, from Ballet Victoria.

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 ...