The design of the letters also confirms this, as they are clearly adaptations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scholars now agree that the Proto-Sinaitic script was created by Semites living in Egypt. They ...

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 ...

A collaboration between an Egyptologist and data scientists at Brown aims to make the Pyramid Texts, the world’s oldest ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across half a dozen modern-day countries. How much do you know about this iconic ...

The hieroglyphics suggest Ptolemy VIII from the 2nd century BCE was responsible for the construction of the pylon. Though the inscriptions also portray Egyptian fertility god Min, his wife Repit ...

Egypt's greatest mysteries—lost tombs, cryptic texts, and eerie curses—continue to intrigue, with leading theories offering ...

Credit: Romilly Lockyer/Getty Images Ancient Egypt is famous for its pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs. At times throughout its thousands of years of history, ancient Egypt was an empire that ...