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 ...

Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient ... Egyptian temples. One part of the ceiling features depictions of moon deities standing atop disks in which images ...

They say it opens a window into a period late in ancient Egyptian history when Saqqara ... Beautifully preserved, it showed the face of a woman with large, kohl-lined eyes. The rest of the inner ...

Ancient Egyptian images show children walking with canes ... in his work to bring vaccines to poor countries. "I met a woman in India whose child had polio," he said. "She wanted to vaccinate ...

Ancient Egyptian images ... “The woman I met asked them to mark the child’s toe so her husband wouldn’t find out.” Why are there so many black-and-white photos of children in plaster ...

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Burial chamber unearthed seven meters (23 feet) underground It was discovered at important ancient Egyptian city Abydos The pharaoh's name was obliterated by ancient tomb robbers March 27 (Reuters ...

Acharya Chanakya, one of India’s most well-known ancient scholars and strategists, composed the Chanakya Niti, a collection ...

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty ... the tomb does still have two painted images of the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, who were commonly depicted in funerary ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...