The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

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 ...

Hieroglyphics is are of the oldest forms of writing. They started in Egypt around 3000 BC and employ pictorial characters to ...

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Lina Annab announced the discovery of a Pharaonic hieroglyphic inscription featuring a royal seal (cartouche) belonging to Pharaoh Ramses III (1186–1155 BC) in Wadi ...