Ancient Egypt is one of the world's most iconic civilizations, known for its awe-inspiring achievements and innovations.

Location: Egypt, other parts of North Africa and the Middle East Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and ...

Egypt is celebrating a new wave of remarkable discoveries that reinforce its status as a global centre of archaeological ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments ...

The document, “Papyrus Waziri 1”, was discovered in May 2022 during excavations of the Egyptian mission in the Saqqara area headed by Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa ...

Hieratic is a cursive form of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, according to the Getty Center. Most of the papyrus is written in black ink, but a few portions have red ink, photos show. A section of ...

Egyptian archaeologists inspect mummified remains found in a newly discovered burial site in Luxor's Dra' Abu el-Naga' Necropolis, which they said was the first ever found in the area dating back ...

By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like. ... was deemed hieratic. So hieroglyphics were an elevated form of communication.

Newly deciphered Egyptian symbols on a 3,400-year-old limestone ostracon from Luxor’s Tomb of Senneferi appears to be the first written evidence of the ABC letter order of the early Semitic ...

In the temple, archaeologists also found an inscription written in hieratic script ... The Coptics, who make up about 10% of Egypt's population, ...

The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids Ancient Egyptians leveraged a massive shipping, mining and farming economy to propel their civilization forward ...

University of Oxford Egyptologist Hana Navratilova, an expert on ancient Egyptian scribes who wasn’t involved in the latest study, explains that hieratic developed some 5,000 years ago and was ...