The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they ...

It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken ... pottery and walls on ancient Egyptian remains.

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

The civilization's earliest written inscriptions date back ... His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered ...

archaeologists discovered a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and ancient Greek). In 1822, together with the inscriptions on an ...

Inscriptions ... in Demotic and Greek. These texts provide rare insights into ancient commercial transactions and tax collection systems. Mohamed Abdel-Badi, Head of the Egyptian Antiquities ...

Archaeologists found a number of faded inscriptions on either side ... These multiple ostracas were written in Greek, Demotic and an Egyptian language. From the seventh and 14th centuries A.D ...

The ostraca were written in Greek and Demotic, an Egyptian script. Between the seventh and 14th centuries A.D., the workshop was reused as a cemetery, and the remains of families were found within it.