For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

Egyptologist and paleography expert Elizabeth Bettles analyzes hieroglyphs painted on the walls of tombs in the Theban necropolis. By identifying different “handwriting” techniques — distinct shapes, ...

Jill Kitson: Hello and welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: decoding hieroglyphics. Archaeologist Tim Murray tells the story of the Rosetta Stone. To the ancient Egyptians, writing was the invention ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians—known as hieroglyphics—has fascinated generations of archeologists. Its precise origins are uncertain. One ancient Egyptian legend holds ...

Ubisoft, a company better known for its games and their occasional face-removing bugs, has announced it has branched out into academia with a machine learning system for the translation of ancient ...