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 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 ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

The 3,900-year-old tomb of priestess Idy is revealing new insights into women’s roles in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.

James Wannerton taste flavours when he reads words – even single letters – so BBC Future asked him to tell us the taste of the alphabet. Find out what strange tastes your initials spell out ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder ...

Chinese writing has a history of some three thousand five hundred years. It is not as old as Sumerian or Egyptian writing; there is no certain evidence, however, that the invention of writing in China ...

Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

When we were younger, my friend Alaa Abd El Fattah and I didn’t know just how intimately prison, and state violence, would shape our lives.

The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught ...

An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible ...

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