The presence of alphabetic symbols at such an early date in the Syrian region suggests that writing may have spread through ...

LA-based conceptual artist, Awol Erizku has unveiled Quaquaversal, his latest exhibition with Ben Brown Fine Arts. Building ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

The gateway - on the western side of the Athribis Temple near Sohag, Egypt - spans 167 feet (51 meters) in width and ...

In the quiet Egyptian village of Athribis, near Sohag and approximately 200 kilometers north of Luxor, a team of researchers from the University of Tübingen, in collaboration with Egypt’s Ministry of ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The Egyptian hieroglyphic ankh looks kind of similar to the Christian cross. This has lead some conspiracy theorists to argue that Christians copied the ankh for their own religious symbol: the cross.

Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

The Dawn of Signs: The earliest forms of signs were simple marks or symbols used for navigation or to communicate information. These signs, found in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, often took the form ...

When most people think of Egypt, their minds inevitably wander to the Pyramids of Giza or the temples of Luxor. While these ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...