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

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Some signs were clearly related to hieroglyphs, yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though ...

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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 ...