As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799 ... the more informal Demotic script, and the administrative language of ancient Greek. Once scholars had managed ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...

The writing on it says the same thing in three languages! Ancient Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Before it was discovered, archaeologists couldn’t read Hieroglyphs or Demotic ...

Written in 196 B.C. by Egyptian priests, this story of the pharaohs was told in hieroglyphics, demotic script and Greek. After years of analysis, it helped scholars finally understand the ...