How hieroglyphs became the sacred script of the ancient Egyptians

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
Hyperallergic

A History of Writing, from Hieroglyphs to Squiggles

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...
Springfield News-Sun

Cursive writing is the hieroglyphics of our next generation

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...
The New Criterion

Write like an Egyptian

It was the greatest puzzle in the world. For three thousand years the ancient Egyptians covered the walls and ceilings of their temples and tombs with a form of writing known as hieroglyphs. More, the ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Write like an Egyptian: Kids have fun with hieroglyphics

DAVENPORT -- A mouth, vulture, cow stomach and lion. Those four symbols spell "Rachel" -- who, on Friday, was sitting at a table in the Putnam Museum with a pointed stick and blue paint writing her ...
Forbes

From Hieroglyphics To Emojis: History Of Writing Exhibit To Open In London

London is a huge draw for Americans, but the British Library, the United Kingdom’s equivalent to the Library of Congress, is not always on people's radar. But the library's collection is comprehensive ...
Nature

Champollion and Hieroglyphics

In “Science News a Century Ago”, in NATURE of August 8 (p. 257), an extract appears from the \ Aihenceum describing an obelisk erected to the \ memory of Champollion, and bearing the inscription 1 “To ...