Carved into rock near the village of El-Khawy in southern Egypt, a massive line of ancient hieroglyphs has just been brought ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ARTIST AND TEACHER OF HIEROGLYPHICS, HODA ABDELAZIZ, SAYING:"The beauty of hieroglyphics is that each symbol has a meaning. The symbol represents something in nature and shows how ...

Archaeologists from Yale and the Royal Museums of Art and History in Belgium have discovered an ancient Egyptian "billboard" that might turn back the clock on when the hieroglyphic writing system was ...

The elegant pictorial writing system of the ancient Egyptians—known as hieroglyphics—has fascinated generations of archeologists. Its precise origins are uncertain. One ancient Egyptian legend holds ...

Jeremy Pope and seven eager students sat at tables in Swem Library’s Brown Board Room on a Friday afternoon in February and munched on pizza, drank soda and discussed a passage most people couldn’t ...

Soon You May Be Able to Text with 2,000 Egyptian Hieroglyphs Collaborations among Egyptologists and digital linguistics promise global visualizations of what was written on inscriptions, papyri, wall ...

Escape rooms traditionally feature a group solving a puzzle or task together to get out of a room. At the Eisenhower Public Library in Harwood Heights, children Saturday had to Escape The Cursed ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

What do you know about Ancient Egypt, Pandas? I'll be honest – my personal knowledge pretty much begins and ends with the 1999 classic "The Mummy." And it's a shame, since the film is not historically ...

Three burial shafts believed to contain mummified birds were discovered near Cairo. The coffins, which are covered in ancient hieroglyphic texts, were found in the Abusir necropolis, a large cemetery.

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