Making history palatable for schoolchildren isn’t easy – but the work that’s gone into this imaginative show on ancient Egypt ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Ancient myths have influenced civilizations and can be mapped to zodiac signs. Each sign aligns with a mythological pantheon reflecting its traits, li ...

Here is an image teeming with goats. You have a mere 5 seconds to spot the sheep hidden among them. This picture puzzle is a ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

3,000-year-old writing boards with school notes and math exercises, ornate sarcophaguses, and towering stone slabs, known as stelas, containing government edicts in hieroglyphs. Kate McMahon/Travel + ...

Hieroglyphics is are of the oldest forms of writing. They started in Egypt around 3000 BC and employ pictorial characters to represent objects, people and animals. Egypt was full of hieroglyphic ...

At one point, I walked up to a letter that was left on a table next ... But apart from seeing a couple of hieroglyphics scattered around the pyramid depicting aliens in and around the pyramids ...

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic system. An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in ...