The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Newly discovered, the earliest known public Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription contains four symbols (right to left): a bull’s head mounted on a pole, followed by two storks flanking an ibis.

2017.31.335 As the curators acknowledge, hieroglyphics and emoji have vastly different roots. The Egyptians gradually developed their pictorial system, laboring over millennia to create a ...

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 ...