Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might expect, the ...

This detailed historical narrative traces the extraordinary lifespan of Egyptian hieroglyphs, from their origins in the third millennium BC to their final appearance in AD 394 at the Temple of Isis on ...

Archaeologists in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have decoded Maya hieroglyphs to identify the name of a sixth-century queen: Ix Ch’ak Ch’een. Ix Ch’ak Ch’een ruled over the city of Cobá, and she likely ...

Archaeologists from Yale and the Royal Museums of Art and History in Belgium have discovered an ancient Egyptian "billboard" that might turn back the clock on when the hieroglyphic writing system was ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from Yale and the Royal Museum of Art and History in Belgium have discovered the earliest-known ‘billboard-sized’ hieroglyphs in the ancient Egyptian city of Elkab. The hieroglyphs, ...

Like something out of Stargate SG1, hieroglyphs lie hidden within a remote sandstone canyon in the deep bush of Australia—hoax or history?

Prominent Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass implored Minister of Education Tarek Shawky assign schools to begin teaching ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, during a television ...