Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

Scribes in Ancient Egypt often sat cross-legged for hours and hunched over their work - Jonathan Nelson / Alamy Stock Photo Scribes in Ancient Egypt suffered hip, spine and shoulder problems from ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs, as pictorial representative writing, were closely related to Egyptian cursive writing. Both script forms originated in predynastic times and remained closely linked for two ...

It's Bart Simpson's classic school punishment, but it seems pupils being told to write lines in class goes back even further than people thought. Lines written by "naughty pupils" are among the 18,000 ...

The famous Rosetta Stone is a black granite slab inscribed with three ancient texts — two Egyptian and one Greek. It ultimately helped researchers decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, whose ...

When ancient Egyptians put pen to paper—or, more accurately, ink to papyrus—they took steps to ensure that their words would endure, a new study suggests. As detailed in the Proceedings of the ...

Discovered in Egypt by Napoleon’s conquering forces, this plain-looking slab was the key to cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the ...