The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Its full forms, following the principles of formal Egyptian art, were suitable for monumental ... cursive scripts - they called the less cursive of these the 'hieratic' script (meaning 'priestly'), ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...

The ostraca were written in Greek and Demotic, an Egyptian script. Between the seventh and 14th centuries A.D., the workshop was reused as a cemetery, and the remains of families were found within it.