Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

Findings uncovered in the gold mines of Ghozza are shedding a dark light on one of the most powerful ancient civilizations.

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

But "what is more difficult is being sure that it is related to the alphabetic system." Archaeologists think writing ...

From the way we communicate to the way we heal, everyday life has been shaped by innovations that originated here. Let’s ...

Maybe, for now, it’s just the questions you write down. No answers at all. Maybe, over time, answers begin to come.

CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

It’s one of Egypt’s most sacred and ancient burial sites, guarding the secrets of many kings and important people from Egyptian society ... with Greek and Demotic writing—it appears to ...