Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like.

Smith used his Egyptology skills to extrapolate what the ancient Egyptian language would likely sound like when spoken aloud (plus how it might have evolved after centuries of time split off on ...

American-Israeli epigraphist interprets ancient inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim that could be the oldest written mention of ...