Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so ...

The Egyptian language evolved for thousands of years ... This video explores how Coptic developed from hieroglyphics, its role in early Christianity, and its use as Egypt transitioned to Arabic.

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation ... so the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic code.

We've been to hieroglyphics class. broadband LEHNER: In hieroglyphics class you're basically learning a foreign language. I mean we all know what it's like to learn French or to learn German.

Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who can claim to have cracked the code to deciphering the Indus Valley script. The earliest ...

Before the discovery, according to Dr Gamal, Egyptian hieroglyphs were perceived as magic signs used for curses and spells rather than the complex and intricate language it was later revealed to be.