Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian language which uses pictures and symbols to describe objects and sounds. Dr Ilona Regulski, curator of Egyptian written culture at the British Museum ...

This means people have been able to read hieroglyphs ... has been on display at the British Museum since 1802. The Stone helped scholars to translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time.

The hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt are as iconic as the famed ... hieroglyphs appeared around 3250 B.C., according to the ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

Birds and beetles featured in hieroglyphic carvings ... A new exhibition aims to showcase a different side to ancient Egypt. Creatures of the Nile focuses on the animals that were central to ...

What to see at the British Museum? Great hunks of Greek statues. Egyptian mummies ... to see are the Rosetta Stone (the key to unlocking hieroglyphs), the singular Anglo-Saxon treasures of ...

For ten nights, animal lovers brought their furry friends to "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on ...