Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

An Egyptologist uncovered pro-Ramesses II hieroglyphs on Paris' obelisk, revealing ancient messages supportive of the alleged ...

One of the most prominent pharaohs of the New Kingdom ... Each move was recorded in hieroglyphics on the linen wrapping his body. The mummy of Ramses II was discovered in 1881 in the Deir ...

He has specialized in cuneiform and hieroglyphics, has compiled grammars ... and to a large extent it was centered in the person of the Pharaoh. When a Pharaoh died, he was supposed to go to ...

While some Egyptians could read hieroglyphs, only an elite understood the hidden messages ... His findings shed light on the early years of Ramesses II, a pharaoh who sought to legitimize his reign.

The name of the king once buried inside was originally recorded in hieroglyphic texts on plastered ... Kingdom and New Kingdom eras when Egyptian pharaohs were among the most powerful figures ...

But after he analyzed the hieroglyphics more closely ... Usermaatra. He was the only pharaoh to use this name during his time, so that cleared any doubt that it was his sarcophagus.” ...

Like Seneb Kay's tomb, this one was decorated with paintings — including hieroglyphs of the pharaoh's name. To Wegner's dismay, though, ancient tomb robbers had damaged the hieroglyph painting ...

In 2021, he published a study translating some cryptographic hieroglyphs upon a small throne of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. In total, Olette-Pelletier identified seven crypto-hieroglyphs on ...