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 ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King Arthur and Merlin, with its preservation considered a miracle.

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 ...

Sullivan is no longer involved with the study of the cylinders and is currently writing a book about the diffusion of ancient Egyptian objects through the modern world, with the working title ...

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 ...