Much like cats, crocodiles, and lions, the hippopotamus was a revered animal in ancient Egyptian culture, as it represents ...

Archeologists unearthed a 52-foot-long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing which was more than 2,000 years old from Saqqara, Egypt. Experts discovered the Book of the Dead papyrus inside a coffin in ...

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards which recorded laws, taxation and government business. These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of ...

The papyrus itself is labeled "P. Leningrad 1115" and at present is housed in Moscow. The story is part of a series of prose, unique to the Middle Kingdom, in Ancient Egyptian literature ... of ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...