Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

Scientists have discovered a new inscription on the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris’ Place de la Concorde that reveals that this ancient monument is still yielding Egyptian secrets.

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty ... Graverobbers had damaged the hieroglyphic text painted on bricks at the entryway, leaving the name unreadable, according ...

This eerie chamber is one of several “megatombs,” as the archaeologists describe them, discovered last year at Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis that once served the nearby Egyptian capital of ...

The names of King Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Public domain However, this did not mean the writing system had been fully deciphered. The Greek rulers, descendants of ...

During recent access enabled by Olympic renovation scaffolding, Egyptologist Dr Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier of Paris-Sorbonne University found the encrypted texts using his expertise in ...

Archaeologists think writing developed in several places in the ancient world independently of other writing systems. Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example, originated in about 3200 B.C., while ...

Fronted by an alabaster and glass facade decorated with hundreds of cartouches, ovals that encircle Egyptian hieroglyphs with the names of kings and queens, the new museum isn’t meant to replace the ...

This interest, known as Egyptomania, has peaked several times throughout history, most notably following Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign in the late 18th century and the rediscovery of King ...