In the main hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Egyptian app developer Ahmed El-Kholy stood before the painted wooden coffin of Sennedjem, a master craftsman of the 19th Dynasty ...

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Ancient hieroglyphics painted in a stairway near a Maya ambassador's burial tell the tale of his elite but tumultuous life nearly 1,300 years ago, a new study finds. The ambassador, a man named Ajpach ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II.