Stela (stelae plural), is a standing stone ... carved features of a priest or other important people, inscribed with hieroglyphs and dates. In the Early Classic Period (100-600 BCE), Tikal was ...

In 1822, Jean-François Champollion became the first person to decipher hieroglyphs in over a thousand years. Now, a new generation of Egyptologists is learning more about the people who wrote them.