Through consultation with ancient Egyptian priest, he provided a list of names of Egypt’s ancient rulers, the Pharaohs, which he provides along with their English translation ...

The ancient language is Demotic Egyptian, a name given by the Greeks to denote it was the tongue of the demos, or common people. It was written as a flowing script and was used in Egypt from about ...

Life in ancient Egypt had been a mystery for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta stone. A new exhibition at The British Museum in London explores how the stone was decoded and celebrates ...

A 37-year project to compile a dictionary of an ancient Egyptian script used for daily communication has been completed, offering an unprecedented look at the words of ordinary ancient Egyptians.

While Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered in the 19th century, there are still a number of ancient languages that are not understood today. "There are basically three kinds of decipherment ...

In July 1799, French troops building fortifications for Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign unearthed a strange black basalt slab. It was almost 4 feet tall and nearly 2.5 feet wide; its ...

A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world. The darkened New York church was packed with almost 1,000 congregants ...