Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians has fascinated generations of archaeologists.

A team led by the Shanghai Museum will embark on a joint archaeological research project with Egypt in October at the Sekhmet ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the most important human inventions because, without it, it would have been ...

Archaeologists from Yale University just made a revolutionary discovery that will give us clues into one of the most intriguing and mysterious ancient languages—Egyptian hieroglyphics. The team ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs, one of the oldest writing systems in the world, were used for over two millennia. Yet, by the time of ...

The birth of writing and the first alphabet were among the world’s most vital inventions.

helped scholars decipher ancient Egyptian writing. Even so, there are still a number of ancient languages that await full decipherment.

But above all, Thoth was the god of scribes, writers, record keepers and writing. Papyrus “paper” was made by Thoth’s deputy scribes on earth, and little boys in the temple scribal schools ...