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 ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 trailblazers who led the way.

Astonishingly, the papyri were written by men who participated in the building ... Mark Lehner, the head of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, who has worked on the pyramids and the Sphinx for ...

DR JOANN FLETCHER: 'The villages lies near a place called the Valley of the Kings, where ancient Egypt kings, known as pharaohs, were buried in huge tombs deep underground. And the men who built ...

But most Ancient Egyptians were just ordinary people who did all sorts of different jobs. A very important job to hold was that of a scribe. These were people, usually men, who could read and ...