(In reality, the script may not have anything to ... determine whether Cretan scripts are derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, from Hittite cuneiform, or whether they developed indigenously.

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

One joke, etched in the ancient cuneiform writing of the Sumerian people ... Other ancient jokes uncovered by the researchers include writing on an ancient Egyptian papyrus featuring a dig at one King ...

It contains cuneiform text. Question ... We actually recreated ancient Egyptian wedges, where the ancient Egyptians put handles on the wedges. And there's nothing better when you've gotten ...

The newly discovered tablet adds to the wealth of knowledge about Alalah’s economic and social structure. The cuneiform script used on the tablet is one of the oldest known writing systems, originally ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

One of the earliest known forms of written communication, cuneiform ... into a complex script used for administrative, legal, and historical records. Similarly, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics ...

Iset (another name for the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis) ...

In a significant advancement for archaeology in Iraq, an excavation expedition in the historic province of Babylon has ...

at least six hundred would have to be learned even for the simplified cuneiform developed in Assyria, and about the same for Egyptian hieroglyphs (Gelb 1952: 115; Diringer [D. Diringer, The Alphabet: ...

Dr Irving Finkel, a British Museum expert, has revealed that the cuneiform writing on the tablet provides insights into the ...