On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Our understanding of ancient civilizations is constantly challenged by newly discovered ruins that defy mainstream historical ...

The Nile River, eternal and majestic, carves its path through endless desert landscapes before surrendering to the ...

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: Osiris ...

Joint museum exhibits and student exchanges target one million visitors, handing cultural writers China-Egypt dialogue ...

A recent scientific breakthrough has unveiled a captivating genetic link between the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Delving into the DNA of a 4,600-year-old skeleton, researchers have ...

To many, ancient Egypt is synonymous with the pharaohs and pyramids of the Dynastic period starting about 3,100 BC. Yet long before that—about 9,300 to 4,000 BC—enigmatic Neolithic peoples flourished.

The U.S. government has secured the forfeiture of 14 ancient Egyptian artifacts illegally smuggled into the United States, ...