It's been 226 years since researchers unearthed a priceless ancient artifact that helped to reveal the secrets of a lost ...

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799, and its subsequent decryption, revealed the secrets of the pharaohs hidden in the hieroglyphic script.

Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 2,600-year-old clay vessels — filled with ancient cheese. The discovery was made at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, which the Egyptian Antiquities Mission has ...

The restoration efforts also uncovered dipinti, or graffiti written in ink, in Demotic script (the cursive script derived from ancient Egyptian hieratic).

Archaeologists found 2,600-year-old cheese in Egypt. The cheese was found inside pottery excavated at the vast Saqqara necropolis near Cairo. Evidence of cheese-making in ancient Egypt dates back ...

During restoration of an ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the god Horus, rare artwork dating back thousands of years was revealed through careful cleaning of the temple walls.

The Rosetta Stone is a black granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The decree, written in  54 lines of Greek, 32 lines of ...

The Coptic magical texts appear around the fourth century and seem to represent a tradition which continues that of the older Greek and Demotic (an earlier Egyptian script) magical papyri, which ...

Another recent find was the discovery of "dipinti"—graffiti painted in ink—that was written in the ancient Egyptian Demotic script, which was common at the time the temple was built.

'1822. The deciphering of hieroglyphs' (3/5). It took the discovery of a text engraved in hieroglyphs, Demotic Egyptian and ancient Greek for researchers' hypotheses to be put to the test, and for ...