Ancient Egypt is famous for its pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs. At times throughout its thousands of years of history, ancient Egypt was an empire that controlled vast areas of northeast Africa ...

Ancient Egyptian pyramids were sometimes tombs for pharaohs and other important people. Because hieroglyphics were complicated to write, ancient Egyptians invented cursive versions called hieratic ...

Why hieroglyphs were invented is a source of debate, Marc Van De Mieroop, a history professor at Columbia University, wrote in the second edition of his book "A History of Ancient Egypt" (John ...

Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well ...

Research is revealing the hieroglyphic texts from within the tomb of an Egyptian scribe. A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the ...

Inscribed in hieroglyphs in a 4,400-year-old pyramid, this sentence evidences that ancient Egyptians understood the extraterrestrial origin of iron-rich meteorites—thousands of years before ...