Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a piece of paper bearing 60 unknown script characters expertly ...

New research continues to uncover the complexities of Soknopaiou Nesos, focusing on its difficult Demotic texts and the ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins and structures still in use today. Yet scattered across the pages of ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

For ten nights, animal lovers brought their furry friends to "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on ...