What if new technology could help experts decode hieroglyphs?

Fabricius, a new Lab Experiment from Google Arts & Culture uses machine learning to help experts decode the stories of ancient Egypt.

If you’re curious about Egyptian hieroglyphs, you can learn a few of them right now and share what you’ve learned with your friends!

Choose your path and get started:

Learn - Take your first steps into the world of Egyptian hieroglyphs

Play - Send coded messages using hieroglyphs, the emojis of ancient Egypt

Work - Set of tools to assist researchers with the translation of hieroglyphs ( available as open source )

The experiment was named after Georg Fabricius, considered the father of epigraphy. It was launched in collaboration with the Australian Center for Egyptology at Macquarie University, Ubisoft and Psycle Interactive.