Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Europe’s oldest surviving book was never meant to last, and yet it did, by pure accident. Its pages were torn apart and ...

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A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Ancient writing systems are a fascinating window into the past, offering clues about the cultures that created them. These scripts are not just means of communication, but also art forms, often ...

Waiters and deliverymen receive tips. But so do receptionists, government clerks and hospital nurses. And with Egypt stuck in an economic crisis, even the cost of tipping is inflating. By Vivian Yee ...

Cairo — Egypt's government hosted dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries on Saturday as it held an official opening ceremony for the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project decades in the ...

A long while before Indiana Jones was depicted discovering the Ark of the Covenant in Cairo in that famous franchise, a young, ambitious, French soldier by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs are among the oldest writing systems in the world, dating back some 5,200 years. Known in ancient Egyptian as the “language of the gods” and said to have been created by the god ...