Two 4,500-year-old seal impressions discovered on a Cycladic island may overturn everything we know about the birth of ...

Shahd Hashem , Saturday 17 May 2025 Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second ...

Cursive writing could become this century’s hieroglyphics By News Staff on Thursday, April 24, 2025 ...

This inscription, which includes two cartouches bearing Ramses III’s birth and throne names, marks the first-ever finding of its kind in Jordan. The discovery not only strengthens the connection ...

Opinion: Cursive writing could become this century’s hieroglyphics By Dink NeSmith on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 ...

In collaboration with the School of Critical Studies (Theology & Religious Studies) at the University of Glasgow and the Joseph Chair of Catholic Spirituality at Boston College, we are pleased to ...

As Greek and Coptic grew in popularity, the use of the hieroglyphic writing style declined and became extinct during the fifth century A.D. After A.D. 641 the Arabic language spread in Egypt and ...

Not wanting to make the students feel like 8-year-olds again, I did find cursive writing workbooks for teens. Clearly, I am not the only “teacher” that considers this lost art an important skill.

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.

The Phoenician alphabet evolved from a script known by scholars as the Proto-Sinaitic Script. This was a form of writing that has been found on inscriptions in Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, and ...

That alphabet, called Proto-Sinaitic, is based on hieroglyphic symbols repurposed as letters. The new finding suggests instead that people in farther-flung reaches of the Near East experimented ...

The word ra (in hieroglyphs and Coptic) means “sun.” Mes is both a sound sign and a meaning sign (ideogram). Mes meant “gave birth to, or created” (a verb), and su means “him” (a pronoun).