Hieroglyphs were used for well over 3000 years to write the Egyptian language in monumental settings and was the script some of the most important texts were written in.

Scientists have discovered a new inscription on the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris’ Place de la Concorde that reveals that this ancient monument is still yielding Egyptian secrets.

it was created under Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II (c. 1250 BC) and given to France in the 19th century. Until now, academics thought they had deciphered the hieroglyphs running the length of the ...

One hundred and eighty-nine years ago, a spectacular 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk was erected ... an Egyptologist and specialist in hieroglyphic cryptology at the Catholic University of Paris ...

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty ... Graverobbers had damaged the hieroglyphic text painted on bricks at the entryway, leaving the name unreadable, according ...

As a kid I would study books on Egyptian hieroglyphs along with exhibition catalogs of abstract painting from MoMA in the fifties. The idea of an ancient, mysterious pictographic language and a ...

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After conservation, the researchers found a hieroglyph featuring 10 stars painted above the deities. “On the night before the Egyptian New Year festival, Orion rises in the tenth hour ...

This eerie chamber is one of several “megatombs,” as the archaeologists describe them, discovered last year at Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis that once served the nearby Egyptian capital of ...