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 ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...