The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...

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

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

During the first millennium A.D. this abbreviated hieratic script was supplanted by a new form of short-form writing called "Demotic." Egyptian language changed over the millennia, with scholars ...

A team of Egyptian-American archaeologists has uncovered ... They found more than 30 inscriptions in Greek and Demotic on shards of pottery, known as ostraca, that detailed taxes and commercial ...

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

Archaeologists from a joint Egyptian-American team, led by Josef Wegner of the ... With its brick kilns, storage rooms, and commercial ostraca—pottery shards inscribed with Greek and Demotic ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic ... who study ancient Egyptian history have a special ...

Archaeologists from a joint Egyptian-American team ... and commercial ostraca—pottery shards inscribed with Greek and Demotic writing—it appears to have been a major hub for trade.