The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving ... everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation.

A typical teenager’s text message is linguistically related to the Egyptian ... hieroglyphics and emoji have vastly different roots. The Egyptians gradually developed their pictorial system ...

Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian ... their focus to understanding the hieroglyphics.