The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and Egyptian culture through hieroglyphs, gods, and amulets ...

An Egyptian paper claims that archaeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the Biblical Joseph. Israel National News - Arutz Sheva ...

Egyptian hieroglyphics refer to Israel; ancient Roman and Greek writings refer to Israel; a plaque in the Roman Coliseum states that it was built using the wealth stolen from Jews during the ...

One of the scripts was Ancient Greek; one was unknown; and one appeared to be hieroglyphs—the lost sacred language of ancient Egypt, which had not been understood for over a thousand years.

Two ancient Egyptian sarcophagi underwent CT scans at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center Sunday as part of a study into how artists created the elaborate coffins for interring mummified bodies.

A 12-year-old girl was on a hiking trip with her family in Israel when she discovered a small scarab that turned out to be an ancient Egyptian amulet dating back 3,500 years.

Hieroglyphs were used for well over 3000 years to write the Egyptian language in monumental settings and was the script some of the most important texts were written in.

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC.. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred ...