Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

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 ...

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures ... civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists.

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.

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