The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the royal tomb of an unknown king who ruled the region during a tumultuous time 3,600 ...

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

You can see the outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into the stone. There is the royal seal of Mentuhotep IV, a little-known pharaoh who ruled for just two years in ...

Champollion had extensive knowledge about Egypt and even understood the Coptic language, which had descended from ancient Egyptian. He found that the hieroglyphics contained Coptic sounds.

And the latter was a result of Ancient Egyptian reverence for gold, something that has become widespread knowledge recently ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics ... many others Ancient Egypt was an influential kingdom in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians were ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

Ancient Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Before it was discovered, archaeologists couldn’t read Hieroglyphs or Demotic, but they could read ancient Greek! By comparing the three texts ...