Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

The 5,000-year-old manuscript was discovered in an Egyptian tomb and is believed to hold knowledge about the origins of ...

How did they build the pyramids? Why were they so obsessed with cats? Did they mummify everyone? Egyptologist Chris Naunton ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like.

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and the Saharan regions.

It feels fitting that the mystery surrounding the official opening date of Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum seems ... a pyramid-shaped doorway flanked by hieroglyphs. Inside the vast atrium ...

The background to these figures uses the two-dimensional profile style of classic Egyptian painting, along with hieroglyphic motifs and a figure that suggests the goddess Hathor, wearing a disk ...

The city was awash with Egyptian objects and Coptic texts ... Champollion's notebook, which is undated, shows hieroglyphs in columns. Album/Art Media/Heritage Images Before the find could be ...