It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek ... The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern English alphabet.

Some signs were clearly related to hieroglyphs, yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though ...

The proto-Sinaitic script seems to have been influenced by ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, but "the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet is clearly a very innovative creation," she wrote; the general principle ...

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

Researchers reveal clay cylinders from Syria dating to 2400 BC may predate Egyptian hieroglyph ... Unlike hieroglyphs, which were exclusive to an elite class, the alphabet revolutionized ...