Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

Archaeologists conducting excavations in Egypt's Saqqara region have discovered a 5,000-year-old manuscript containing a "terrifying message," according to The Mirror. Unearthed inside a sealed ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding the Rosetta Stone’s discovery and translation is more obscure.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs - 3200 BCE. One of the most well-known and oldest writing systems, Egyptian hieroglyphs were largely referred to as “holy writing” in the Greek language due to their reverence.

An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in the Narmer Palette, a ceremonial artefact that depicts King Narmer’s unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic system. An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons ...