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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the millennia-old tombs of three senior statesmen, identified by inscriptions left on ...

Conjuring up images of Ancient Egypt typically involves Hollywood films — Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra or Arnold Vosloo as high priest Imhotep in “The Mummy” — but the ancient ...

around 3000 B.C.E., when the First Dynasty unified Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt. Ancient Mesopotamia soon followed suit. The practice persisted for millennia, continuing after the fall of ancient ...

“Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now,” an exhibition ... in academic caveats in the catalogue essays and occasionally in the actual display, which includes a rich ...

But some of the most repeated facts about ancient Egypt don't have scientific backing, experts said. Here are nine common misconceptions about ancient Egypt, debunked by experts. The mystique of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old tomb in Saqqara, Egypt that belonged to Teti Neb Fu, a royal witch doctor. Sitting 40km south of Cairo near Giza, Saqqara is an ancient burial ground ...

Most of what we know about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques ... elemi—have not been previously identified anywhere in Egypt before. They also found bitumen from the Dead Sea.

Within weeks, perhaps aware of the appeal to its nationalist supporters, Egypt’s government acted. The authority that oversees all things ancient Egypt informed the Leiden museum’s team of ...