The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings ... deities with certain numbers, the symbols of these deities came to represent numbers. No one studying Maya hieroglyphs would get very far without ...

Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they got ... The design of the letters also confirms this, as they are clearly adaptations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scholars now agree that the ...

The mysticism surrounding tarot cards extends to their history. Let's delve into the many existing theories of the tarot ...

A collaboration between an Egyptologist and data scientists at Brown aims to make the Pyramid Texts, the world’s oldest ...

Google has launched a hieroglyphics translator that uses machine learning to decode ancient Egyptian language ... the images to better analyse the symbols. The Workbench feature allows users ...

A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico ... beginning to ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across half a dozen modern-day countries. How much do you know about this iconic ...