Life in ancient Egypt had been a mystery for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta stone. A new exhibition at The British Museum in London explores how the stone was decoded and celebrates ...

In July 1799, French troops building fortifications for Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign unearthed a strange black basalt slab. It was almost 4 feet tall and nearly 2.5 feet wide; its ...

Instead, “the hieroglyphs … are a way of writing the Egyptian language in the same way that ‘ABC’ is a way of writing English, French or German,” Dolnick explains. The Rosetta Stone by ...

Go back in time to ancient Egypt. Thousands of years, in fact. Their influence on modern life can be seen in our language, art, engineering, and more. Gain a new appreciation for ancient Egyptian ...

The Egyptian language evolved for thousands of years, but its final form—Coptic—continues to hold cultural and religious significance today. This video explores how Coptic developed from ...