His accounts of ancient Egyptian history were preserved by ancient Greek writers and, until hieroglyphic writing was deciphered in the 19th century, were among the few historical accounts that ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

They tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing and everyday life. The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies living ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...

Sullivan is no longer involved with the study of the cylinders and is currently writing a book about the diffusion of ancient Egyptian objects through the modern world, with the working title ...

Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the letters and symbols chiseled into the face of the Rosetta Stone helped scholars crack the code of an ancient Egyptian writing system—and ...