Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

A copy of the Decree of Canopus, which was vital in breaking the enigma of hieroglyphics, has been found at a site north of ...

For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

At the turn of the 19th century, Napoleon’s armies uncovered a remarkable object near the Egyptian town of el-Rashid: a large, gray slab containing three blocks of the same text in three different ...

A rock panel featuring depictions of a bull’s head on a short pole followed by two back-to-back saddlebill storks with a bald ibis bird above and between them. A rock panel featuring depictions of a ...

This essay proposes a hypothesis that Mixe-Zoquean speakers-more specifically Mixeans-were involved in the initial stages and subsequent development of the Maya hieroglyphic writing system, traces of ...