She became fascinated. But the more she studied the alphabet over the years, the more she doubted the prevailing theory that elite scribes had invented it. For one thing, the writing was a mess.

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Sept. 4 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with KPBS Passport! Beginning in ancient Egypt, NOVA "A TO Z: The First Alphabet" explores some of ...

Between 750 and 1,000 Hieroglyphs were used by Egyptian authors during the periods of the Old, Middle, and then New Kingdom (2687 BCE–1081 BCE). That number later greatly increased during the ...

The British Museum in London has been home to the iconic Rosetta Stone, from which Young deduced the hieroglyphic alphabet and Champollion cracked the code, since 1802. It is also home to a ...

Google’s Arts and Culture vertical has been known to release fun apps and tools to help people engage with art and history. Now, the company is launching a web-based AI tool to let users ...

SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.. Israelites living in ...

It's been 221 years since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone —a key tool for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. To celebrate the anniversary, Google this week launched Fabricius, a new Arts ...

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 ...