The British Museum in London is launching a new exhibition celebrating 200 years since ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were translated. Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian language which uses ...

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have ... of the obelisk revealed the presence of seven crypto-hieroglyphs - an obscure and highly stylised script form ...

Egyptian hieroglyphics, however, are often seen as mere decoration. Sometimes, the characters are literally used as wallpaper. One reason is that schoolchildren and classicists alike have read ...