Papyrus plants. Credit: SuSanA Secretariat / Wikimedia Commons Paradoxically, the Egyptian Cyperus papyrus became extinct due to overexploitation, although it has survived in the wild in other places ...

The ancient Egyptians published on papyrus and water hyacinth leaves, ... as Iraqis took to their keyboards writing about the last days of former president Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

It’s hard to tell based merely on hieroglyphics, (Ancient Egyptians' writing technique involved pictures and imagery.) Recently, the code has, at least partially, been cracked.

Almost 2 years ago, it was confirmed that the cones depicted on the heads of Ancient Egyptian relief scenes were real ...

In celebration of International Literacy Day 2023, Kafr El-Sheikh Museum will host an exhibition on the origins of ancient Egyptian writing and its progression across the country's many dynasties.

It's pretty dry and pretty stuffy in here, in fact I imagine rather like the conditions in an Ancient Egyptian tomb, which suits the papyrus - above all because of course it's dark, and therefore ...

Though the key ingredient in aspirin has been used by humans for millennia, it was Bayer that transformed the chemical into a ...

We often spend a great deal of time evaluating our options when buying a house or car. We should spend just as much effort ...

THE cylinder seal is the typical product of the civilization of those countries and periods where cuneiform writing was employed, as is the scarab in Egypt or the coin on Roman sites. Invented at ...

Researchers recreated ancient Egyptian blue pigment and uncovered insights into its production, variability, and future tech ...