She suggests that it was actually a group of illiterate Canaanite miners who made the breakthrough, unversed in hieroglyphs and unable to speak Egyptian but inspired by the pictorial writing they ...

Hieroglyphs are perhaps a writing that has ... I hope that when it's reopened, we'll finally find out who Padiamenope was." And I made use of this text to have the tomb opened again.

The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives a chance for musicians and artists to tell us about the song that made them who ... Bay Area rap crew Hieroglyphics. The group's 1998 album ...

After years of dogged work, Young finally made a breakthrough—he realized the hieroglyphic cartouches (pictures surrounded by an oval) contained the name of the ruler Ptolemy. This allowed him ...

Some sources say that in 1824, having made his breakthrough in deciphering hieroglyphs, Champollion visited London to see the artifact. However, a recent Champollion biographer, Andrew Robinson ...

He found that the hieroglyphics contained Coptic sounds. “I’ve got it!” Champollion allegedly cried, per National Geographic, ...

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 ...

A detailed study of the obelisk revealed the presence of seven crypto-hieroglyphs - an obscure and highly stylised script form first recognised in the mid-20th century by French scholar Canon ...

A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the archaeological work now being done in Egypt to understand one of the empire’s most important ...