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 ...

While excavating the 19/3 site in Iraq’s Al-Fayadiya district, a team led by archaeologist Quhtan Abbas Hassan Aboud 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: ...

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 ...

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

(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.

Effective writing is readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise. When you are writing a paper, try to get your ideas across in such a way that the audience will understand them ...

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

Equally, you might tell it to get a move on. And if, like so many potential visitors, you have been waiting for the Grand Egyptian Museum to open, via a delay that has run to an astonishing 11 ...

Emily Bary is a MarketWatch news editor based in New York.