The pyramids of Egypt are history’s ultimate “wait, that can’t be real” achievements. These ancient wonders were built thousands of years ago, yet they remain taller, heavier, and way more mysterious ...

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 ...

Just inside the entrance of Cairo’s must-see Egyptian Museum is an unassuming display case off to the left. Competing for attention in a sea of head-turning antiquities — from towering statues to ...