Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

In this video, we explore the process of making primitive hieroglyphs inside a hut. Viewers will see techniques used to ...

Extracted from: Visible religion (Leiden) 4 (5) 1985-1986, pages 63-72. The ancient Egyptian writing system is at once pictorial, phonetic and symbolic. The number of hieroglyphic symbols are thought ...

Who invented the alphabet, and why? First, the hard facts: The earliest evidence of what’s thought to be the world’s first alphabet is a group of 3,500-year-old inscriptions found in Egypt’s Sinai ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a rare hieroglyphic Canopus Decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy III at Tell al-Faraun.

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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—Researchers from the Idiap Research Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the College of Humanities are working with ...