The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated ...

Some signs were clearly related to hieroglyphs, yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that ... a significant civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists.