Hieroglyphics is are of the oldest forms of writing. They started in Egypt around 3000 BC and employ pictorial characters to represent objects, people and animals. Egypt was full of hieroglyphic ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from ... It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation.

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...