entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication.

Arguments still rage about how the pyramids were built, but a new discovery has taken giant steps toward the incredible truth ...

A triangle pointing right which indicates this type of media can be played. Only 40 Benin Bronze makers are left in Nigeria as it fights to have its stolen artifacts returned A triangle pointing ...

This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes a period of famine in Egypt that occurred when the Nile River failed to flood for several years in a row. It was collected from the ...

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards which recorded laws, taxation and government business. These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of ...

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

It has a rich and famous history of being used as paper, growing in large populations along the Nile in Egypt. Papyrus has also been used for food and weaving for thousands of years. Papyrus is a ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old pyramid, Ancient Origins reported. Researchers from the Israel ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old pyramid ... remarkably well-preserved wooden tools, textiles, Greek papyrus documents, colored beads, sewing needles, weapons, and bronze ...

It promised to be a noble spectacle—except the fix was in. This papyrus, found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and dating to A.D. 267, is apparently the first known bribery contract in ancient sports.