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 ...

Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was ...

David Degner / Getty Reportage Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved ... the clear and orderly writing of the hieroglyphs of the papyri, which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world ...

Ancient Egyptian cursive and the yet-untranslated hieroglyphics. Known as the Rosetta Stone, this trilingual slab presented an unmatched opportunity to unlock the stories of the Ancient Egyptians.

His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered in the 19th century, were among the few historical accounts that ...

The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics, and Chinese characters ... “Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite.