The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

However, a large number of archaeologists think ... ancient Greek, an ancient Egyptian script called demotic, and ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...

Champollion had extensive knowledge about Egypt and even understood the Coptic language, which had descended from ancient Egyptian. He found that the hieroglyphics contained Coptic sounds.

The connection between hieroglyphics ... Egyptian religious beliefs appear highly eccentric. Yet we can still learn from those beliefs and especially the linguistic practices they promoted ...