A 5,000-year-old book which was discovered in an Egyptian tomb has been decoded and is said to contain a "horrifying" message ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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 ...

Public domain The Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Linear B were, before their decipherments, unintended crypto-systems. Invented to develop written records, their information was lost over time, ...

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

But unlike contemporary civilisations like Egypt and Mesopotamia, which left behind vast written records, the Indus civilisation's script remains unreadable. The script, found on pottery and stone ...

Translating them would unlock Egyptian civilization and its knowledge. The names of the king were identified in the hieroglyphs by English scholar Thomas Young. In France, meanwhile, scholar ...

The last inscription written in hieroglyphs was around 400 after Christ. As Egyptologists, we have conventionally divided this very long language in three main phases, which is old Egyptian ...