Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...

Analysis involved 12 papyri fragments from the Tebtunis temple, southwest of Cairo. I'm not very knowledgeable about the various forms of ancient Egyptian writing. Usually we picture ancient Egyptian ...

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists have, for the first time, sequenced the ...