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

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 ...

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 ...

Even back in the early 1990s when they were putting together the original Stargate movie, filmmakers Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) and Dean Devlin (The Ark) knew they had to get the little ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

and figurative all at once—at last providing the key to making ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs a readable language. In his lifetime Champollion was lauded as the “father of Egyptology,” and he ...

Frustrated, he paused his efforts, choosing to immerse himself in Coptic — a living language derived from ancient Egyptian. In England, Champollion’s main rival in the race to decode the slab ...

Their influence on modern life can be seen in our language, art, engineering, and more. Gain a new appreciation for ancient Egyptian civilization and the Egyptian Empire with this collection of ...

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

Other antiquated languages, like ancient Egyptian, were deciphered with a multilingual key ... one (Egyptian hieroglyphics), allowing archaeologists to decode the unknown language. Since the Indus ...