The Egyptian hieroglyphic ankh looks kind of similar to the Christian cross. This has lead some conspiracy theorists to argue that Christians copied the ankh for their own religious symbol: the cross.

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

Egyptologist and academician Monica Hanna talks about her recent book, “The Future of Egyptology,” which provides a roadmap ...

Newly discovered, the earliest known public Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription contains four symbols (right to left): a bull’s head mounted on a pole, followed by two storks flanking an ibis.

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?