The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics ... many others Ancient Egypt was an influential kingdom in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians were ...

David Degner / Getty Reportage Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved delicately ... They found some 130 anchors—nearly quadrupling the number of ancient Egyptian anchors located.

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

Rediscovered some 200 years ago, the ancient Egyptian temple of Esna has held ... vibrant paint hidden beneath layers of dirt. “The hieroglyphics that Sauneron explored were often only very ...