With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic ...

However Egyptian civilization existed long before this period, and it has survived and flourished since. While the civilization's rulers, language, writing, climate, religion and borders have ...

Turquoise is why Egyptian elites sent expeditions ... they began writing things their own way, inventing a simpler, more versatile system to offer their own religious invocations.