Hieroglyphs could be written vertically ... These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of history. This is in contrast to societies that had no written record ...

According to History, Young started to examine the Rosetta stone in 1814. He found that some of the hieroglyphics were contained in an oval, which he called cartouches, and that these spelled out ...

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

The connection between hieroglyphics and emoji – systems of communication separated by thousands of years – is the subject of an intriguing new exhibition at the Israel Museum. The curators ...

A series of Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many pretty pictures or symbols to you. But they actually say something, of course, as Mayanists have known for some time (see Time Line of ...