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 ...

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 ...

Some ancient societies had written languages, but deciphering their texts can be a Sisyphean task. So, how do experts figure out how to translate ancient words into modern ones? The answer is ...

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 ...