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

The alphabet remained on the cultural periphery ... the Hittite Empire in Turkey and the ancient Egyptian Empire—all disintegrated amid internal civil strife, invasions and droughts.

They tell us about beliefs, gods, clothing and everyday life. The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies living ...

a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected ...