For most of history, magic was not practiced by ordinary people but guarded by elite scribes who believed writing itself held ...

Egyptian authorities arrested and briefly detained poet Ahmed Douma over social media posts, continuing a pattern of investigations, travel bans, and punitive bail aimed at silencing critical ...

An ancient inscription found in Sinai shows how Egypt claimed power beyond the Nile more than 5,000 years ago.

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

Prof. Ludwig Morenz from Uni Bonn deciphers 5,000-year-old inscription displaying early Egyptian dominance in Sinai ...

A set of ancient clay cylinders discovered in Syria may hold the earliest known example of alphabetic writing, predating ...

The Egyptian Humanitarian Aid Committee and the AFP criticize the latest deadly attack on a vehicle belonging to a ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,600-year-old royal tomb at Abydos that may belong to a forgotten pharaoh from a debated Egyptian dynasty.

An Egyptologist deciphers secret messages hidden for 3,000 years in the Luxor obelisk that millions see every day.

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