Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

The oldest written recipe found in Egypt is dated back to approximately the year 300 AD, and it was written on papyrus in the ...

and its use as Egypt transitioned to Arabic. From monastic texts to modern-day liturgy, discover how this ancient language still survives in the Coptic Orthodox Church and academic studies.

We use it to write down our language using small pictures called ... These short animated videos explore Ancient Egypt. There are five films devoted to key themes - such as the River Nile and ...

Champollion had extensive knowledge about Egypt and even understood the Coptic language, which had descended from ancient Egyptian. He found that the hieroglyphics contained Coptic sounds.

It's been rumored that God of War might finally take players to Ancient Egypt, and there's one part of the mythology that could be vitally important.

Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two ...

The tomb was the last of the lost royal tombs from ancient Egypt’s famed Eighteenth Dynasty, dating back to approximately the 15th century B.C. An ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to King ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

as well as motifs and paragraphs from the book "Amy Dawat," one of the most important religious books dedicated to the tombs of kings in ancient Egypt. The fourth Pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty ...