The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians—known as hieroglyphics—has fascinated generations of archeologists. Its precise origins are uncertain. One ancient Egyptian legend holds ...

Who invented the alphabet, and why? First, the hard facts: The earliest evidence of what’s thought to be the world’s first alphabet is a group of 3,500-year-old inscriptions found in Egypt’s Sinai ...

Did Arab scholars contribute to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics years before Frenchman Jean-François Champollion Ancient Egyptian civilisation has always fascinated the world with its ...

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of an online tool that uses artificial intelligence to decode and translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. The tool — called fabricius — will be useful for presenting ...

Jeremy Pope and seven eager students sat at tables in Swem Library’s Brown Board Room on a Friday afternoon in February and munched on pizza, drank soda and discussed a passage most people couldn’t ...