Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

He then identified the corresponding cartouche with the name written in hieroglyphics. That allowed him to write the seven letters -- P-T-O-L-M-Y-S -- opposite the seven hieroglyphs. He was able ...

One of the fragments, a sharp-eyed officer noted, featured hieroglyphs as well as a second text block in Greek, and then a third, unidentified script (now known as demotic text). (How the Rosetta ...

Weirdest of all these unusual finds were the hieroglyphics. "On all the urns, or walls over doorways , and tablets of stone which were found by the image are the mysterious hieroglyphics ...

He located a cartouche, an oblong engraving containing a group of hieroglyphics representing the mark of a ruler, which translated to “of Ramses II himself.” His findings were published in ...

One of the scripts was Ancient Greek; one was unknown; and one appeared to be hieroglyphs—the lost sacred language of ancient Egypt, which had not been understood for over a thousand years.

Discovered in Egypt by Napoleon’s conquering forces, this plain-looking slab was the key to cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab ...

By Pippa Bailey “Je tiens l’affaire, vois!” Jean-François Champollion cried in 1822 when he cracked the Ancient Egyptian script hieroglyphs, before collapsing from exertion. “Look, I’ve got it!” The ...

This article was originally published on Sept. 10, 2021. Until 200 years ago, no one in the modern era could understand Egyptian hieroglyphs; ancient Egyptian was essentially a lost language. The fact ...