Who invented the alphabet, and why? First, the hard facts: The earliest evidence of what’s thought to be the world’s first alphabet is a group of 3,500-year-old inscriptions found in Egypt’s Sinai ...

Digital hieroglyphics: what does the buffer symbol tell us about ourselves? Staring at a buffer symbol, waiting for something on the internet to load can be both reassuring and distressing. We wait ...

Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

Did Arab scholars contribute to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics years before Frenchman Jean-François Champollion Ancient Egyptian civilisation has always fascinated the world with its ...

Google has launched a hieroglyphics translator that uses AI to decipher images of Ancient Egyptian script. The new tool, called Fabricius, uses machine learning to give experts a fast way to decode ...