Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...

A newly examined inscription found in Sinai, Egypt may read “This is from Moses,” sparking debate about ancient script.

The campaigners argue the Rosetta Stone, along with 16 other artifacts that have been in the U.K. for centuries were removed from Egypt illegally, and it's time to get them back.

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

Egypt’s draft asylum law, if enacted, risks violating the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said today. The law would hinder the work of United Nations agencies and ...

"The Chosen" offers new twists on the story of Jesus and his disciples A newly deciphered manuscript dating back 1,600 years has been determined to be the oldest record of Jesus Christ's childhood ...

Born in 1934 in the cosmopolitan port city of Alexandria, Egypt, Nikos Nomikos has lived a life that reads like a novel — ...

An ancient language that originated before Christ and incorporates hieroglyphics and Greek, Coptic is a term that also applies to the earliest Christians in first century Egypt.

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of ...

A MYSTERIOUS stone tablet has been found that’s 14,000 years old, containing traces of a lost ancient language unknown to scientists. Archaeologists have dated the find from Georgia that does… ...

One of the earliest examples of written language comes from ancient Egypt. In the tomb of Scorpion I, a ruler from around 3400 BCE, archaeologists found symbols on bone and ivory tags. These ...