Ancient markings, sealed away for millennia, have just been uncovered in one of Egypt’s most iconic structures. These new ...

The neighborhood in which I live, in Brooklyn, has a synagogue or two on every block. Almost all of these are incredibly modest. Usually, they aren’t adorned with any religious symbols at all.

Hieroglyphs in the notebook of Jean-Francois Champollion, c.1806-1832. | Art Media/Print Collector/Hulton Archive via Getty Images. The Frenchman was not to be riled by Young’s pointed offense ...

♪♪ Basically, hieroglyphs read from right to left. To understand which way to read them, you simply take a pictorial hieroglyph -- for example, a quail chick.

No one can pinpoint exactly when writing was invented, but the earliest evidence of this faculty hails from Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). On show is a 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian clay tablet ...

Reading Maya Hieroglyphs by Rick Groleau Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't ...

The discovery of an ancient Egyptian “billboard” might turn back the clock on when hieroglyphic writing was thought to be introduced to the general population. The inscriptions date back to ...

Stalagmites & Hieroglyphs: Investigating the Maya Demise. News. By Jacqueline Conciatore published 25 June 2013 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

When the Halfway Hill Fire started burning in Millard County near Fillmore, a lot of people who live nearby were worried about a historical site.

The last known hieroglyphic inscription is dated to the 5th century C.E. when the writing system fell out of use. The thousands of years of Egyptian writing are not a story of just hieroglyphs but a ...