Have you ever wondered what Ancient Egyptian sounded like? This fascinating journey into historical linguistics explores how researchers and linguists have pieced together the sounds of one of the ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they ...

The British Museum in London is launching a new exhibition celebrating 200 years since ancient Egyptian ... a large black granite sarcophagus from around 600 BCE. It is covered in hieroglyphs ...

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

Inscribed in hieroglyphs in a 4,400-year-old pyramid, this sentence evidences that ancient Egyptians understood the extraterrestrial origin of iron-rich meteorites—thousands of years before ...

The iconic artifact, which helped scientists finally decode Egyptian hieroglyphs almost exactly 200 years ago, has been in English hands since Napoleon gave it up – as well as 16 other artifacts ...