Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

Basically, hieroglyphs read from right to left. To understand which way to read them, you simply take a pictorial hieroglyph -- for example, a quail chick. It's looking to the left, which means ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons ...

One of the fragments, a sharp-eyed officer noted, featured hieroglyphs as well as a second text block in Greek, and then a third, unidentified script (now known as demotic text). (How the Rosetta ...

But it was time to lead by example, so I took the position of ... But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic writings appear fully formed, either because they were developed on perishable, now-lost materials or because they were quickly "invented by an unknown genius.

The first was written in hieroglyphs and the second in the demotic script ... “This is the only famous example of success by using this method,” says Enmarch. A Modern Approach to Translate Ancient ...

With an Ancient Greek translation directly underneath examples of Demotic and hieroglyphics, there was theoretically everything in place to translate the mysterious Egyptian languages. A race ...

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing ... d not deciphered the entirety of hieroglyphs in one go” using the ...

In total, Olette-Pelletier identified seven crypto-hieroglyphs on the Concorde obelisk. Some of them, for example, instruct viewers to make offerings to the gods. The researcher plans to detail ...