The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

For more than three thousand years, Egyptian hieroglyphs were used to record religious texts, royal monuments, and sacred traditions. Yet by the late Roman period, the ability to read and write this ...

The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic writings appear fully formed, either because they were developed on perishable, now-lost materials or because they were quickly "invented by an unknown genius.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

Gaia Bencini is a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations studying Egyptology. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: What were you interested in while you were ...

On Saturday, scholars and diplomats in Cairo, Paris and London marked the 203rd anniversary of the day in 1822 when French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ...

A new study reveals birdsongs influenced Egyptian hieroglyphs, showing that ancient bird calls shaped some of the earliest ...