Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of ...

so the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic code. Hieroglyphs could be written vertically, horizontally, left to right, or right to left! The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the ...

Using this handy grid, try to spell your name using Egyptian hieroglyphics. Each symbol stands for a different letter, just like an English alphabet. If you want to be very clever, see if you can ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.