Try this activity to learn how to create your own “Caesar cipher,” a popular type of code that is easy to learn. Background Cryptography is the study of writing or solving secret codes that ...

Activity 2: Crack the hieroglyph code; Activity 3: Write your name in hieroglyphs; Activity 4: Hieroglyph quiz; ... Hands offering Aten writing tablets, ca. 1352–1336BC.

THE WRITING OF THE GODS The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone By Edward Dolnick On a steamy day in July 1799, a member of a French military work detail at a tumbledown fort in the Nile Delta made ...