A Johns Hopkins University archeologist and his team are credited with discovering “humanity’s earliest-known alphabetic ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

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 ...

A mysterious inscription on an ancient Sphinx that puzzled scientists for decades has finally been deciphered as written in ...

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 ...

A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the ...

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a "remarkable" collection of artifacts at the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple. An Egyptian-Dominican research mission made the finds in the ancient city of ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

“On Top of the Pyramid” explores ancient Egyptian life and highlights recent archaeological discoveries. It features nearly 800 artifacts from various eras in Egyptian history, as Chu tells ...