In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

Egyptian zodiac signs originate from ancient Egyptian astrology, often linked to the deities and their influence on life. Nick Brundle Photography / Getty Images ...

No sci-fi depiction of Ancient Egypt or even an alien corpse lying around. But instead of feeling like some great discovery, it just felt like an excuse to put spaceships at the end. It also ...

(AP Video by Ahmed Hatem) Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the foreign ministry headquarters in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, ...

which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs. Such artefacts contain text in two languages, offering a direct comparison between a known and unknown script. Recent advancements in deciphering ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...

Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years. The script—not itself a language—was used by scribes of multiple cultures over that time to write a number of languages other than ...

the German-Egyptian team discovered remains of coloured scenes and inscriptions written by priests in Demotic script, in addition to traces of gold paint used to gild the reliefs of jewellery and ...