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 ...

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Visitors to the lobby of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan are often surprised to find a series of pictorial stained-glass panels. Added in the 1960s, they were meant to link the ...

The figures adorn the wall of a tomb found in a necropolis near one of Pompeii’s city gates. Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have made the astonishing discovery of two life-sized relief sculptures of a man and a woman draped in classical robes. The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within ...

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The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the mysterious Abydos Dynasty of warrior kings in a chaotic historical era. The pharaoh's identity is a ...