By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like.

Have you ever wondered what Ancient Egyptian sounded like? This fascinating journey into historical linguistics explores how researchers and linguists have pieced together the sounds of one of the ...

Language has always been more than communication, it’s how civilizations preserved their culture, beliefs, and history.

Scientists have recreated the elusive Egyptian blue, a pigment used by ancient Egyptian artists for thousands of years.

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

Erich Lessing/Album Written in letters derived from the Greek alphabet, Coptic is a descendant of the ancient Egyptian language. It was widely spoken in Egypt from the second century A.D. The ...

Even back in the early 1990s when they were putting together the original Stargate movie, filmmakers Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) and Dean Devlin (The Ark) knew they had to get the little ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

“Thus, restoration is for Egyptologists not just a matter of aesthetics but a sort of micro-excavation that reveals further information on the ancient Egyptian picture language.” So, in the ...