You know those hieroglyphic-like laundry symbols on clothing labels? They relay important cleaning information. Here's what they mean and how to use them. A picture may be worth a thousand words ...

These hieroglyphics of squares, circles, open-topped trapezoids and squiggly lines seem impossible to decipher if you don’t know what to look for. But once you understand the basic tenets behind these ...

The number of hieroglyphic symbols are thought to vary from seven hundred up to seven thousand during the Ptolemaic period. Some hieroglyphs represent both a word and a sound. Ideograms portray ...

A system of hastily scrawled symbols that only the initiated would understand. These symbols, really hieroglyphs , appeared on posts and bridge abutments, on fences and outbuildings.

Use of these symbols slowly faded as the Roman Empire took control of ancient Egypt. When the Romans officially adopted Christianity at the end of the 4th century, the use of hieroglyphics died out.

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods . The ...

Did Arab scholars contribute to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics years before Frenchman Jean-François Champollion ...