Allen argues that Egyptian hieroglyphs were invented first, saying that the earliest cuneiform inscriptions date to around 2900 B.C. However, many scholars disagree.

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

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 ‘sacred ...

In July 1799, French troops building fortifications for Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign unearthed a strange black basalt slab. It was almost 4 feet tall and nearly 2.5 feet wide; its ...

Staring at a jumble of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that had been indecipherable for more than 1,400 years, the obsessive scholar suddenly had a 'Eureka!' moment. He ran from his Parisian attic to ...

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “The ...