Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Of course, we’ve learned a lot from the buildings and monuments of Ancient Egypt that are still standing. Like the pyramids! Or the Temples of Karnak! People can still walk amongst the ruins of ...

Archaeologists excavating in Abydos, Egypt, have unearthed an extraordinary tomb dating back more than 3,600 years—yet the pharaoh once buried within remains unidentified. Although looters likely ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

What we know of this early society changes and is re-intepreted year by year as new archaeological finds discovered beneath the desert sands revise our understanding of ancient Egypt. This web ...