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 ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian ...

The Egyptian hieroglyphic ankh looks kind of similar to the Christian cross. This has lead some conspiracy theorists to argue ...

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

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

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 ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

A 4,400-year-old discovery in Syria may rewrite history. Clay cylinders with symbols, predating Egyptian scripts, suggest the alphabet's true birthplace was Tell Umm-el Marra.