The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around ... everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood, the ...

“However, most of the symbols used therein resemble ones found in the scripts of the Middle East, as well as those of geographically remote countries such as India, Egypt and West Iberia.

But the letters of ordinary people, preserved on papyri in Egypt, show us what ... prompted Valerius to use this language. A famously endearing letter is one written by a boy called Theon to ...