Allen argues that Egyptian hieroglyphs were invented first, saying that the earliest cuneiform inscriptions date to around 2900 B.C. However, many scholars disagree.

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC.. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

While Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover this week, recounting the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, a newly released report sheds light on a modern exodus that remains largely ...

The Jews sent their top debater, Geviha the hunchback, to defend them. He asked the accusers the source for their charge. “It was your own holy Torah,” the Egyptian accusers said.

Before the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, there were around 80,000 Egyptian Jews in the country. Now there are 3, and the youngest, at 70, is worried about what comes next.

More recently, the Jews of Egypt have had a painful, and documented, history: In its first stages of modernization, under the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the 19th century, Egyptian authorities ...

In July 1799, French troops building fortifications for Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign unearthed a strange black basalt slab. It was almost 4 feet tall and nearly 2.5 feet wide; its ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi falsely claimed on Sunday that Egypt had never persecuted Jewish people living in the country. “You spoke about the crisis and you spoke as a Jewish ...

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “The ...

Staring at a jumble of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that had been indecipherable for more than 1,400 years, the obsessive scholar suddenly had a 'Eureka!' moment. He ran from his Parisian attic to ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs 'proof' of time travel after people spot 'helicopter and plane' A video posted on YouTube by seems to depict a modern-day fixed-wing aircraft on the sacred hieroglyphs but ...