Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 2,600-year-old clay vessels — filled with ancient cheese. The discovery was made at ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.

Background'1822. The deciphering of hieroglyphs' (3/5). It took the discovery of a text engraved in hieroglyphs, Demotic Egyptian and ancient Greek for researchers' hypotheses to be put to the ...

The ostraca were written in Greek and Demotic, an Egyptian script. Between the seventh and 14th centuries A.D., the workshop was reused as a cemetery, and the remains of families were found within it.

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...

Archaeologists were amazed to discover that a false door at an excavation site led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty, per the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

The Coptic magical texts appear around the fourth century and seem to represent a tradition which continues that of the older Greek and Demotic (an earlier Egyptian script) magical papyri, which ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently discovered a 3,000-year-old mining complex including remnants of ancient homes, workshops and baths. ... along with Egyptian demotic and Greek.

The middle inscription was in “demotic” script, the form of Egyptian used by everyday people. Translation of the Ancient Greek text at the bottom of the stone indicated that it was a decree ...

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of ...

An analysis by Dr Stephen Chrisomalis of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, showed striking similarities between Greek alphabetic numerals and Egyptian demotic numerals, used in Egypt from the ...

When the French surrendered to the British in 1801, they gave up the stone and 16 other artifacts as part of a the "Treaty of Alexandria," and all of the items went to the British Museum in London.