The Luxor Obelisks are two monuments from ancient Egypt separated by the Mediterranean - one in Luxor and one in Paris - and ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

With the decoding of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Jean-François Champollion solved one of the greatest mysteries in human history. However, he did not accomplish this feat alone but alongside his eldest ...

Saying “Tothmosis” aloud, he had an epiphany: the Ancient Egyptian “MSS” resembled ... becoming the first man in 2,000 years to read hieroglyphs. He published his findings in 1824, and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...