Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient city in North Macedonia that might be Lyncus, the capital of an ancient civilization.

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

The project used Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography and involved scientists Corrado Malanga of the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, who scanned the ...

The cities of Memphis (the capital of ancient Egypt) and Thebes (modern-day Luxor) are highlighted in red. | Credit: PeterHermesFurian via Getty Images A number of names were used for Egypt.