The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our ... pottery and walls on ancient Egyptian remains which tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing, everyday life and culture.

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

During this period, four separate writing systems were independently ... ancient Greek, an ancient Egyptian script called ...

Like today’s teenagers, Egyptian scribes worked out sophisticated ... is especially evident in hieroglyphic writing during the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Dynasties. Burial spells were ...

The belief that Ancient Egyptians birthed the first alphabet is now challenged. Researchers reveal clay cylinders from Syria dating to 2400 BC may predate Egyptian hieroglyph-inspired scripts by ...

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic system. An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in ...