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 ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

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 ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Newly discovered, the earliest known public Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription contains four symbols (right to left): a bull’s head mounted on a pole, followed by two storks flanking an ibis.

Archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara have discovered a 4,100-year-old tomb that held the burial of a doctor.

Chinese and Egyptian archaeologists work at the Montu Temple archaeological site in Luxor Egypt on Jan 9 ...