In the previous article, we discussed a portion of the archaeological discoveries announced on January 8th. We concluded by translating the text inscribed in hieroglyphics on the funerary stela ...

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the ...

The most famous multilingual inscription is the Rosetta Stone, which contains a decree passed during the reign of Ptolemy V in 196 BCE in three scripts: Greek, demotic (a later ancient Egyptian script ...

Anne Umland: The Italian artist Gino Severini painted Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin in 1912, when he was living in Paris. Severini's goal, like that of his fellow Italian Futurists, was to ...

Curator, Anne Umland: When I first look at this work, it feels a little bit like what you might experience if you walk into a very crowded, noisy room. It was inspired by a very popular Paris ...

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For example, in hieroglyphics, the lion symbol also represents the letter L, the snake the letter J, the open hand the letter D. A somewhat poignant footnote to Champollion’s work is that he ...