Jeremy Pope and seven eager students sat at tables in Swem Library’s Brown Board Room on a Friday afternoon in February and munched on pizza, drank soda and discussed a passage most people couldn’t ...
Ancient Egypt for Kids transports children back thousands of years through historical objects and hands-on activities. We chat to curator Kate Ryan about this “meeting across time” and how kids can ...
The British Museum in London is launching a new exhibition celebrating 200 years since ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were translated. Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian language which uses pictures ...
The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’ ...
Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...
On Saturday, scholars and diplomats in Cairo, Paris and London marked the 203rd anniversary of the day in 1822 when French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ...
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 ...
In archaeology, as in other sciences, assigning credit for achievements is often controversial. The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the 1820s is an intriguing case. Recognition for this great ...
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