While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

“The shapes of the letters in the earliest alphabet (which we often call ‘Early Alphabetic’ or ‘Canaanite’ or ‘Proto-Sinaitic’) hail from Egyptian models… the inventors of the ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

Archaeologists have discovered an oversized inscription that offers a new glimpse into the early development of the Egyptian writing system. A team led by Yale University Egyptologist John Darnell ...