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

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the ... the faith in Ethiopia in the 4th century. The native language (Ge'ez) was used instead of Greek in the liturgy.

Ziv Nitzan was on a hike with her family when a rock on the ground caught her eye. But when the 3-year-old girl picked up the ...

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt, and it was here that Africa's first Christian church – the Coptic Church of Egypt – thrived. To learn more about ...

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According to legend, St. Moses — an Ethiopian who lived in Egypt in the late 300s — was ... that we can have an impact is if we speak the language of the people,” she said.

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 ...