The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid Laurier ...

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Welcome to IGN's new weekly feature, "Lost Mysteries." Each week we take a look at one mystery from Lost and go over what we've learned to date, what we still don't know, and our theories on what it ...

From around 3200 BC all the way to 500 AD, people of the Egyptian empires used hieroglyphics as one of their writing styles. The collected periods of the Egyptian Empire are the longest dynasty in ...

The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic writings appear fully formed, either because they were developed on perishable, now-lost materials or because they were quickly "invented by an unknown genius.

It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta stone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ancient societies had written ...

The discovery of an almost-4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian papyrus has academics pondering if it could support the Bible story of Exodus and be proof Moses once walked the Earth. Moses is a key figure ...

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. Moses’s life was ...