The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...
The Department of Classics presents "Writing Contemporary History in the Ancient World" with John Marincola for Thursday, March 14th, 2019 at 5:00 PM in Hellems 241. The contemporary historian was a ...
The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians—known as hieroglyphics—has fascinated generations of archeologists. Its precise origins are uncertain. One ancient Egyptian legend holds ...