The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

The term hieroglyphics derives from the Greek meaning “sacred words”. According to ancient Egyptian belief, God Thoth was the creator of this intricate written language as well as the literary ...

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and ...

The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle Bronze Age New Research When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that ...

As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...