The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

A researcher believes he has found hidden messages on a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian obelisk that is now in Paris.

There, a 20-foot tall obelisk and pedestal, inscribed with hieroglyphics ... he had an epiphany: the Ancient Egyptian “MSS” resembled the Coptic Egyptian word for birth, mise.

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

David Degner / Getty Reportage Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved delicately ... Indeed he is soft-spoken, choosing his words with scholarly scruple and carefully citing the contributions ...

or "phonemes," that are used to make up the sounds of a spoken word, Steele said in an email. The proto-Sinaitic script seems to have been influenced by ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, but "the ...

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 ...