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, ...

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs, as pictorial representative writing, were closely related to Egyptian cursive writing. Both script forms originated in predynastic times and remained closely linked for two ...

The famous Rosetta Stone is a black granite slab inscribed with three ancient texts — two Egyptian and one Greek. It ultimately helped researchers decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, whose ...

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 ...

It's Bart Simpson's classic school punishment, but it seems pupils being told to write lines in class goes back even further than people thought. Lines written by "naughty pupils" are among the 18,000 ...

The paper presented before the Académie de Grenoble in eastern France in 1806 was noteworthy for two reasons: First, the author was only 16 years old, and second the astonishingly erudite teenager ...

The Egyptian priest Manetho, who lived during the third century B.C., started the dynasty construct. His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until ...