Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of ... The hieroglyphs are phrases from the 'Book of the Dead'. Nany is at the final stage in her journey into the ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics ... such as movies and books. Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However, the early Egyptians ...

Think Like an Egyptian" (Granta Books, 2005). Kemp noted that the ancient Egyptians also developed "an abbreviated 'long hand' form of writing which we call 'hieratic.'" During the first ...

A new book, The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom at the ... Written in cuneiform, the world’s oldest form of writing, the tablets not only bring kings and queens to life, but also ...