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.

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 ...

Decipherments of ancient scripts are often attributed, and sometimes misattributed, to individual scholars: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and the Phoenician alphabet, Champollion and Egyptian hieroglyphs, ...