Gaia Bencini is a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations studying Egyptology. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

A new AI-powered tool from Google decodes ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and even lets you translate modern words and emojis into the 5,000-year-old symbols.

Crypto-hieroglyphs were discovered in the 1950s by the Egyptologist Canon Étienne Drioton. They featured “puzzles and wordplay, such as changing the reading direction,” according to Artnet ...

Ancient hieroglyphics painted in a stairway near a Maya ambassador's burial tell the tale of his elite but tumultuous life nearly 1,300 years ago, ... (A.D. 600–850) ...

The granite sarcophagus fragment was found in 2009 but was for years could only be attributed to a high-ranking official of the New Kingdom. Now, archaeologists revisited the hieroglyphics—the ...

Egyptologist Reveals Mysterious Messages Hidden in the Hieroglyphics on a 3,000-Year-Old Obelisk Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75 ...