Are hieroglyphs really as indecipherable as they look? Here is a primer on how to start interpreting these ancient motifs.

A copy of the Decree of Canopus, which was vital in breaking the enigma of hieroglyphics, has been found at a site north of ...

A rock panel featuring depictions of a bull’s head on a short pole followed by two back-to-back saddlebill storks with a bald ibis bird above and between them. A rock panel featuring depictions of a ...

The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an archaeologist who has spent the past four years piecing together the letters of the alphabet from ...

Janice Kamrin holds her PhD in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania and has lectured about ancient Egypt at a number of universities, including the American University in Cairo.