The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos ... The ostraca were written in Greek and Demotic, an Egyptian script. Between the seventh and 14th centuries A.D., the workshop ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...