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Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

English explorer Howard Carter successfully unearthed the treasures of King Tutankhamun's tomb. This discovery is considered ...

The Ancient starship at the heart of Stargate Universe, which the crew comes to call the Destiny, was sent out eons ago by ...

I had the good fortune of participating in Balticon 59 and took the opportunity to mention The Forbidden Land (2022) by Salah ...

Spending a weekend in Alexandria? Skip the packed beaches and busy cafés, these museums are calm, underrated gems where you ...

(In the ancient Egyptian language, Egyptian blue was called hsbd-iryt, or artificial lapis lazuli.) While turquoise or lapis could only be fashioned into objects or inlays, the human-created ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia ... "We had our own language of love, of beauty," she says. "We had ways that we took care of our health and ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Egyptian blue is a color that is over 5,000 years old. From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, this brilliant blue pigment adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday ...

As our ancestors developed more advanced tools and cultural practices, they also developed new ways of explaining concepts to ...