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 ...

A worker arranges salted fish at a factory in Port Said, Egypt, on April 19 ... Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving ...

Similar shackles have been found in ancient silver mines at Laurion, Greece. After Alexander’s conquest, Hellenistic engineers travelled to Egypt to open gold mines and might have imported not ...

This is a painting that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt. Artworks like this tell us a lot about the time and place that they come from. This painting shows a farmworker using a shaduf.