At the ancient necropolis of Anubis Mountain, the massive 3,600-year-old tomb of a pharaoh was found. The discovery will ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Archaeologists think writing developed in several places in the ancient world independently of other writing systems.

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

The name of the king once buried inside was originally recorded in hieroglyphic texts on plastered ... of an unknown ancient Egyptian king was discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and ...

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty ... Graverobbers had damaged the hieroglyphic text painted on bricks at the entryway, leaving the name unreadable, according ...