The English word scarab doesn't only mean beetle, but also a culture of functional and decorative sculptural jewelry based on ...

they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving ... foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language ...

We often take written language for granted– whether it’s texting, reading a book, or scrolling through social media, it’s a part of everyday life. But imagine a time when there were no books, no ...

In 1954, an Egyptian archeologist discovered an immense ... It was buried in the 26th century B.C., very carefully, in a carved stone pit directly beneath the museum where it now rests.