Andrew Robinson pieces together the story of who deserves the credit for deciphering the hieroglyphs. In archaeology, as in other sciences, assigning credit for achievements is often controversial.

From around 3200 BC all the way to 500 AD, people of the Egyptian empires used hieroglyphics as one of their writing styles. The collected periods of the Egyptian Empire are the longest dynasty in ...

A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has uncovered about 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis, offering new evidence about daily life and ...

The key to ancient Egypt: 200 years ago, the Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of hieroglyphs. Coincidence played the main role in the archaeological thriller. The Rosetta Stone: a milestone in ...