Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

They tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing and everyday life. The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies living ...

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 ...

His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered in the 19th century, were among the few historical accounts that ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the ...

Sullivan is no longer involved with the study of the cylinders and is currently writing a book about the diffusion of ancient Egyptian objects through the modern world, with the working title ...

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...

Yamamoto noted that at that time, ancient Egyptians started writing a series of religious texts on the walls of pyramids. This suggests that ancient Egyptians were starting to "canonize" their ...