Hieroglyphs were used for well over 3000 years to write the Egyptian language in monumental settings and was the script some of the most important texts were written in.

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods . The ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,200-year-old military barracks, filled with artifacts that offer new insights into the reign of Ramesses II. Among the finds is a bronze sword, bearing ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs 'proof' of time travel after people spot 'helicopter and plane' A video posted on YouTube by seems to depict a modern-day fixed-wing aircraft on the sacred hieroglyphs but ...

Decoding Hieroglyphics. Season 20 Episode 3 | 55m 15s Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions | AD CC. Research is revealing the hieroglyphic texts from within the tomb of an Egyptian scribe ...

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