French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “The first ...

In the second AMME seminar of the fall semester, we celebrated the Rosetta Stone bicentennial with two presentations on deciphering ancient scripts. The presentations by Dr. Thomas Christiansen ...

For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

Beth Py-Lieberman | Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Nearly two centuries after a Frenchman decoded hieroglyphs on an ancient granite stone ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts, writes ...

Ask any of the staff members helpfully loitering around the entrance to the British Museum’s Great Court and they’ll tell you - there are three things that people ask for. The mummies, the toilets and ...

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 edges were ...

Exclusive: Thomas Young used cut-up method to treat translation of Egyptian relic as mathematical problem, papers show Nobody knew how to read hieroglyphs when two 19th-century scholars set out to ...

It is our pleasure to announce that the Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) seminar that was postponed in the spring will be organised as a hybrid event on Thursday 20 October (16:15-18:00 ...