A 37-year project to compile a dictionary of an ancient Egyptian script used for daily communication has been completed, offering an unprecedented look at the words of ordinary ancient Egyptians. The ...

Demotic is the script used in Egypt from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. A script to carry the language of trade, administration and everyday life, it is separate from the formal ...

Long before Facebook posts and tweets, long before letters with postage stamps, ancient middle and upper-middle-class Egyptians scrawled notes on pieces of clay pots and handed them to children who ...

A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the ...

The exhibition also includes more recent archaeological discoveries from Saqqara – the necropolis of the ancient capital ...

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Researchers have shed new light on "magical" texts created centuries ago in Egypt with the intention of bringing about changes in the lives of those who used them. For the past five years, two ...

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...

The inauguration of Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum has shattered the long-standing argument of the British for holding on to ...

“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

A 37-year project to compile a dictionary of an ancient Egyptian script used for daily communication has been completed, offering an unprecedented look at the words of ordinary ancient Egyptians. The ...