Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to carve Egyptian hieroglyphics and custom text into a subterranean, stone wall. Stone Wall ...

A typical teenager’s text message is linguistically related ... The connection between hieroglyphics and emoji – systems of communication separated by thousands of years – is the subject ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.

In the absence of a Rosetta Stone-like artefact – which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphics – and a lack of bilingual texts, making sense of the Indus script remains a big challenge.