British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

Notably, this writing system used about 130 to 206 different signs. 5. Cretan Hieroglyphs - 2100 BCE The Minoans’ earliest writing system, Cretan Hieroglyphs, doesn’t have that many stories to tell, ...

The campaign resulted in significant archaeological discoveries, including the famous Rosetta Stone. This period also saw the decipherment of hieroglyphs. Scholars began to unravel Egypt’s long-lost ...

Hieroglyphs were used for well over 3000 years to write the Egyptian language in monumental settings and was the script some of the most important texts were written in. In this course we will look at ...