Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

The city was awash with Egyptian objects and Coptic texts ... Champollion's notebook, which is undated, shows hieroglyphs in columns. Album/Art Media/Heritage Images Before the find could be ...

Almost a millennium before the Rosetta Stone was even discovered, Arabic scholars had begun to grapple with the hieroglyphs they found on Egyptian monuments and tomb paintings. The highly ...

("I've got it!") — only to then faint. Egyptian hieroglyphics — a pictographic script using human figures, animals and objects — were in use from about 3,200 BC to 400 AD. In time, the ...

“The conservation team cleaned the layers of soot, dust, and dirt, and the bright colors of the paintings ... hieroglyph featuring 10 stars painted above the deities. “On the night before the ...