For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

Canaanite miners used their new alphabet to write on mine walls and to inscribe gifts to Hathor. The text on this statuette, running from upper left to lower right, seems to read 'mt l bʿlt,' meaning ...

Led by Unicode Consortium member Michel Suignard, the proposed Hieroglyphs will add over 2,000 new glyphs to the current Unicode standards. It will also provide greater global standardization and ease ...

“The twilight of the physical letter”, your leader on Denmark’s cessation of letter delivery (The FT View, December 13) left me perplexed. On one hand progress and bottom lines count, and I would be ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts, writes ...

The key to ancient Egypt: 200 years ago, the Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of hieroglyphs. Coincidence played the main role in the archaeological thriller. On July 19, 1799, French soldiers ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum tells the remarkable story of the deciphering of the Ancient Egyptian script. By Pippa Bailey “Je tiens l’affaire, vois!” Jean-François Champollion cried in 1822 ...