Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

Let's be honest: how many of the oven symbols do you actually use? Two, three... if you're lucky? If you've ever looked at ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

Ilja, Kirill's spiritual father, had been awarded the highest monastic title, that of ‘archimandrite with the skhima’, a super-cape with symbols that attest to the highest vows of ...

As Ziv walked along a seemingly ordinary path, she bent down to pick up what appeared to be just another ... as symbols of devotion but also as markers of social position. As ancient Egyptian ...

The Antiquities Authority determined the stone to be a Canaanite scarab from the Middle Bronze Age. Canaanites were an ancient people that lived throughout the Levant, with strong ties to Egypt. In ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 trailblazers who led the way.

Ziv Nitzan, a 3½-year-old girl, found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, in Israel ...

Other stones surrounded the amulet ... The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr," which means “to come into being” or “to be created,” according to the authority and the ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

CC BY 2.0/flickr Hieroglyphs, meaning “sacred carvings (or words)” in Greek ... of Esmet-Akhom is comprised of two inscriptions, one etched in Egyptian hieroglyphs and another written in the Egyptian ...