ALBAWABA - Egyptian actress Samiha Ayoub, known as the "Lady of Arab Theater," died on Tuesday morning at the age of 93. Artist Mounir Makram, a member ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have revealed three new tombs. The tombs were discovered in the Draa Abul Naga area on the West Bank of Luxor and date back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.).

Egyptian Festival kicks off in Hampton St. George Coptic Orthodox Church hosted the first day of its 18th biannual festival on Friday. To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the 13News Now app.

Primordial Alphabet Soup. Digs & Discoveries March/April 2025. By Eric A. Powell ... Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a set of alphabetic signs adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphics, ...

How the Egyptian writing was decoded. They started in Egypt around 3000 BC and employ pictorial characters to represent objects, ... Hieroglyphics is are of the oldest forms of writing.

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

In Egyptian hieroglyphics, a string of letters is often followed by a sign called a "determinative," which has no phonetic value but tells you something more general about the word.

Everybody knows (or should do, at least) that ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun had a dagger containing iron from a meteorite. The dagger, found in the pharaoh's tomb, was examined through ...

27 September 1822: The day Egyptian Hieroglyphics were decoded. ADVERTISEMENT From around 3200 BC all the way to 500 AD, people of the Egyptian empires used hieroglyphics as one of their writing ...

Discovered by Napoleon’s troops during his Egyptian campaign in 1799, the Rosetta Stone was carved with a decree establishing the rule of King Ptolemy V in 196 BC. What made the Rosetta Stone unique ...