After over a decade of development, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has opened its doors-partially. In late October, GEM ...

Imagine a summer holiday at a seaside resort, with days spent sunbathing, reading books, exploring nature and chatting with ...

Egypt, the cradle of ancient civilization, has captivated humanity with its monumental enigmas for millennia. From the ...

French soldiers, tasked with fortifying a small outpost, unearthed a large slab of black granite—what would later be known as ...

Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of ...

Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they ... The design of the letters also confirms this, as they are clearly adaptations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scholars now agree that the ...

The Phaistos disk is covered in indecipherable symbols.

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

Some of these rock-carved signs are nearly half a meter tall, demonstrating the significance of writing in ancient Egyptian culture. Around 3200 BC, Egyptian hieroglyphs appeared on small ivory ...

Interestingly, the ancient Egyptians put gold tongues in mummies with the intention of helping the deceased speak in the afterlife, and because they believed that gold was "the flesh of the gods ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which were found with gold tongues and nails—among other remarkable artifacts. A joint ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between ... which declares Jesus Christ the “Son of God.” The writing calls Jesus the Son of God and says the man who “surrenders himself to ...