Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

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

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

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 ...

The Rosetta Stone, a treasure discovered in 1799 during Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign in Egypt, played a key role in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Representing a fragment of a larger stone ...

Shahd Hashem , Saturday 17 May 2025 Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second ...

The early Greek alphabet was painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The alphabet was one of the most important and influential things created in ...

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 ...

Archaeology & History Ancient Rameses III Inscription Found Etched Into Remote Jordanian Mountainside It's the first ancient Egyptian cartouche ever found in Jordan.

At times ancient Egypt ruled territory outside the modern-day country's border, controlling territory in what is now Sudan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine.