The blue lotus, a captivating water lily entwined with Egyptian mythology, has long dazzled archaeologists and historians.

Members of a 104-year-old Pasadena synagogue that was burned down in the Los Angeles fires in January are getting ready to ...

Aty Rotter lost her family home and her spiritual home in the ravenous fire that scorched a large swath of Los Angeles County ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus ... and its flowers often adorn ancient papyri scrolls. Scholars have long hypothesized that the lilies, when soaked ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus ... and its flowers often adorn ancient papyri ...

Sat on the western edge of the Nile River delta, Egypt was founded around 331 BC by Alexander the ... which at its height houses between 40,000 and 400,000 scrolls. In part because of this library, ...

scrolls, statues, tools, pottery, jewelry, weapons and even their burials. In fact, it was such a significant civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name ...

The book was mislabeled “Egypt, circa 900 CE,” until carbon ... “Far more ancient written Hebrew texts had been discovered, but only on scrolls, most famously the roughly 2,000-year-old ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient parchments considered the oldest copies of biblical books in the world, may also hold the keys to the ark. The Temple of Edfu was built to appease the Egyptian god of ...

These include the first known writing systems in Uruk over 5,000 years ago, incised in cuneiform clay tablets, as well as ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. Over time, the symbols became ...