this plain-looking slab was the key to cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the letters and symbols chiseled into the face of the ...

As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta ... to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...

Beatrix Potter's classic children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit has been translated into ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by the British Museum. The translation turns the story of a mischievous rabbit ...