The Eye of Horus engraved on a gold plate. This artifact was found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Psusennes I, who ruled more than 3,000 years ago. . | Credit: DEA / S. VANNINI via ...

At the turn of the 19th century, Napoleon’s armies uncovered a remarkable object near the Egyptian town of el ... would go on to deduce part of the hieroglyphic alphabet and Jean-François ...

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a ... so the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic code. Hieroglyphs could be written ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... recording those carved reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions that were visible to the naked eye. Although Sauneron gradually published the inscriptions and ...