A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated ... Scribe," a statue of a seated man holding a papyrus scroll as a guardian of sacred knowledge, like all scribes.

The rest of the scroll includes 150 columns written in hieratic script. Hieratic is a cursive form of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, according to the Getty Center. Most of the papyrus is written ...

Back then, no one could read the neat pictures and symbols carved into stone and painted on papyrus scrolls ... on the circled hieroglyphs thought to be names of important Egyptian figures.

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have ... of the obelisk revealed the presence of seven crypto-hieroglyphs - an obscure and highly stylised script form ...

Egyptian officials have released photos of an ancient scroll, the 52-foot-long (16 meters) Book of the Dead papyrus recently discovered in Saqqara. The 10 images show ancient illustrations of gods ...

“Before hieroglyphs could be deciphered, life in ancient Egypt had been a mystery for centuries — with only tantalising glimpses into this inaccessible world.” Now, however, he ...