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 ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

The first alphabetic writing system was created in the Levant and Sinai Peninsula sometime in the second millennium B.C., probably between 1850 and 1700 B.C., by adapting Egyptian hieroglyphs—a ...

The Eye of Horus, an omnipresent symbol in Ancient Egypt, is often associated with amulets and burials, carrying a spiritual and protective dimension. In Egyptian mythology, Horus, son of Osiris, lost ...

In a celebration of one of Egypt’s oldest and most defining cultural symbols, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir inaugurated on Tuesday the international art exhibition “From Green Papyrus to Eternal Art.” ...

Learn the untold stories of human history and the archaeological discoveries that reveal our ancient past. Plus, explore the lived experiences and traditions of diverse cultures and identities. What ...