Egyptian hieroglyphics

While the history of the alphabet of a particular language may not be of interest to many, it was quite significant to the Greeks. Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they got their alphabet. It was...

The largest embalming vessel cache ever found in Egypt was unearthed at Abusir, north of Giza, the location of the Great Pyramids. The amazing discovery, including vessels with the names of the dead who were to have been embalmed, was...

Recent research and excavations around the ancient Egyptian city of Thmuis, the place where the events recorded on the Rosetta Stone took place, is shedding new light on the turbulent events of the Ptolemaic era. As everyone knows, the Rosetta...