The Rosetta Stone played a vital role in researchers deciphering hieroglyphics. It was found in 1799, but wasn't fully ...

Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

The temple, which measures around 450 feet in length and roughly 250 feet wide is perhaps the best-preserved in Egypt.

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

The Sumerians used a stylus made of reed to inscribe cuneiform on wet clay tablets, which were then baked to preserve the writing for recording of transactions, laws, and stories. By the same time, ...

The sequence and the geographical spread of Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, and Linear B, the five overlapping, but distinct, writing systems of Bronze Age Crete and the Greek mainland can be summarized ...

Egyptian officials are intensifying their campaign to reclaim the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, currently housed in ...

The pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti was uncovered in 1912 by a German team and then shipped to Berlin. A prominent Egyptian archaeologist has demanded its return, along with the Rosetta Stone and ...

Bearing inscriptions in several languages, the Rosetta Stone, which is considered key to understanding hieroglyphic writing, is one of the most visited artifacts at the British Museum in London. The ...

A few months have past since the GNU was formed and while the rest of the country is trying to figure out whether this was a ...

Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from his Nigerian ...