Google’s Arts and Culture vertical has been known to release fun apps and tools to help people engage with art and history. In 2018, it launched a feature to let you find your fine art doppelganger by ...

There are, in certain corners of the Internet, people out there who believe that the Smithsonian Museum are covering up evidence that Ancient Egyptians came over to the Grand Canyon in North America, ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

Jeremy Pope and seven eager students sat at tables in Swem Library’s Brown Board Room on a Friday afternoon in February and munched on pizza, drank soda and discussed a passage most people couldn’t ...

The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic writings appear fully formed, either because they were developed on perishable, now-lost materials or because they were quickly "invented by an unknown genius.

In the main hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Egyptian app developer Ahmed El-Kholy stood before the painted wooden coffin of Sennedjem, a master craftsman of the 19th Dynasty ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAIRO — Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday ...

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “The first ...

It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta stone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ancient societies had written ...

Egyptian officials moved 22 mummies—including 18 kings and 4 queens—to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. Photo by Khaled Desouki / AFP via Getty Images Last Saturday, 22 ...