As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman ...

The number of hieroglyphic symbols are thought to vary from seven hundred up to seven thousand during the Ptolemaic period. Some hieroglyphs represent both a word and a sound. Ideograms portray ...

Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient Egypt.

A joint Egyptian-Italian team discovered Graeco-Roman tombs with intact mummies and hieroglyphics near Aswan’s Aga Khan ...

Egyptian Hieroglyphics [photomechanical print] Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. Click to view ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This ...