DAVENPORT -- A mouth, vulture, cow stomach and lion.

This winter children can get a glimpse into the ancient past while surrounded by real artefacts at NGV’s new children’s exhibition, Ancient Egypt for Kids. This interactive exhibit for young people ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...

Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian language which uses pictures and symbols to describe objects and sounds. It is one of the earliest known writing systems, and was used from around 3000 BC ...

Egyptian hieroglyphics, however, are often seen as mere decoration. Sometimes, the characters are literally used as wallpaper . One reason is that schoolchildren and classicists alike have read ...