The Egyptian ankh—a symbol of life—has long intrigued scholars and conspiracy theorists alike for its resemblance to the Christian cross. This video explores the real connection between the ...

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 ...

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 repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands of the continent’s former colonisers.

One hundred and eighty-nine years ago, a spectacular 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk was erected in Place de la Concorde, Paris, after it had been gifted to France by the viceroy of Egypt. Since ...

People are crowded around tables, playing cards, Connect 4, Othello, and other games taken from a nearby communal shelf. One wall is decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphics, another with a span of ...

Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a set of alphabetic signs adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphics, is the earliest known system to rely on symbols alone to represent sounds and that could be ...

Curse of Ra is a copypasta and meme featuring faux Egyptian hieroglyphics that are said to display the curse of the Egyptian sun god.

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 ...

Written storytelling With the advent of written language came the beginning of written storytelling. It has seen many iterations and forms, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to Stephen King’s horror ...

The British Museum x Casetify collection will include items such as the Golden Gayer-Anderson Cat Strap, Amulets Phone Charms and cases adorned with hieroglyphics and other ancient Egyptian motifs.