The connection between hieroglyphics and emoji – systems of communication separated by thousands of years – is the subject of an intriguing new exhibition at the Israel Museum. The curators ...

Though the use of hieroglyphics had died out after the fourth ... Young was ultimately unable to figure out how the signs conveyed meaning. That task fell to Champollion, who started studying ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...