If a strange message has been decoded properly then some carvings in an Ancient Egyptian mine might prove part of the Bible ...

“Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE,” Glenn Schwartz, a professor of archaeology at Johns Hopkins University, said in a Nov. 20 ...

Researchers have unveiled an ancient Egyptian handprint that was left on a soul house tomb offering 4,000 years ago.

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan in 2004 at the ancient burial site in Syria where she unearthed artifacts inscribed with the earliest known examples of alphabetic writing.

Researchers confirmed, using carbon dating techniques, that the tombs, the artefacts, and the writing were all from around 2400BC. This places the origin of the artefacts about 500 years before ...

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

The Canannites invented the first alphabet about 3,800 years ago. The letters, instead of hieroglyphics like those used in Egypt, became the basis for written Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.