Though the use of hieroglyphics had died out after the fourth century due to the rise of Christianity, scholars of the 19th century could still read ancient ... to Art News, former Egyptian ...

A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian King has been unearthed, in what has been called a "remarkable" discovery by officials. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission identified the ...

Child: It’s paper actually. Ancient Egyptian: Well, whatever you call it, we invented it. We use it to write down our language using small pictures called hieroglyphs. It’s quite complex ...

The model, which is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City ... track of grain supplies was therefore crucial to ancient Egyptian society, according to the Met.

Archaeologists in Egypt say they have unearthed the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first discovery in 100 years of a tomb of an Egyptian royal. The discovery near Luxor is the first of a ...

Egyptian blue ... and also the most precious pigments of the ancient world. This Egyptian blue ingot find connects two crucial periods in art history: the Renaissance revival of its techniques ...