The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic writings appear fully formed, either because they were developed on perishable, now-lost materials or because they were quickly "invented by an unknown ...

Egyptologist Reveals Mysterious Messages Hidden in the Hieroglyphics on a 3,000-Year-Old Obelisk Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75 ...

While Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered in the 19th century, there are still a number of ancient languages that are not understood today. "There are basically three kinds of decipherment ...

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of ...

Some hieroglyphs represent both a word and a sound. Ideograms portray idealized objects, such as domestic animals, houses, or birds, while phonograms are signs representing words. The designation of ...

The Rosetta Stone stars in a new exhibition opening Thursday at the British Museum marking one of the most significant dates in Egyptology -- 200 years after a French scholar finally cracked its code ...

People calling for the repatriation of the ancient tablet and other items say the continued display of the objects in European institutions ignores a history of colonialist looting and exploitation.

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside ...