Hieroglyphs could be written vertically ... Egyptians did not have symbols for vowels (‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’ or ‘u’), but the alphabet below includes the closest sounds.

Hieroglyphic writing was a very complex ... By comparing these, Champollion was able to get values for P, T, O, and L, which are common. He guessed that number 7 in the first image would have ...

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 ...

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 ...

The obelisk is covered in hieroglyphics—the ancient Egyptians’ pictorial writing system—and engraved with both names that Ramses used as king. During his long reign in the 13th century B.C ...

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 ...