Pelletier, a specialist in cryptohieroglyphs and professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of ...

A provocative new reading of 3,800-year-old inscriptions found in an Egyptian turquoise mine has reignited one of archaeology ...

The grave robbers sacked the tomb, and didn't leave any remains of the king's mummy or sarcophagus behind, Wegner said. Archaeologists are still investigating the area where the t ...

Now, a team of archaeologists has uncovered — for the first time — two of the “head cones” in the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna, nearly 200 miles south of Cairo.

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

Writing hieroglyphs in everyday life was too complicated, so the ancient Egyptians also developed a cursive script, initially one called Hieratic, then from the 7th century B.C. onward, Demotic ...

A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the archaeological work now being done in Egypt to understand one of the empire’s most important ...