Secret hieroglyphs found in the Paris obelisk reveal how Pharaoh Ramses II used hidden messages to show divine power and ...

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 ...

A 3,000-year-old Pharaonic inscription of Ramses III has been found in Jordan’s Wadi Rum, revealing Egypt’s ancient ties.

Pelletier, a professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris, has discovered a series of ...

You can see the outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into the stone. There is the royal seal of Mentuhotep IV, a little-known pharaoh who ruled for just two years in ...

He made two trips to Egypt, during which he would make three significant contributions that would lead to the decipherment of hieroglyphics and open a new porthole into the past. His visit to the ...

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

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 ...

With the decoding of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Jean-François Champollion solved one of the greatest mysteries in human history. However, he did not accomplish this feat alone but alongside his eldest ...

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 ...