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Anyone who's ever been to a history museum or even seen a cartoon rendering of an ancient Egyptian tomb will recognize the common artistic perspective of flat, forward-facing figures whose faces are ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "billboard" of hieroglyphs carved into the rocks near the Egyptian village of El-Khawy. The symbols, which show a message related to the cosmos, are the earliest ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum tells the remarkable story of the deciphering of the Ancient Egyptian script. By Pippa Bailey “Je tiens l’affaire, vois!” Jean-François Champollion cried in 1822 ...

“Look! I’ve got it!”. Two-hundred years ago in September 1822, the French Egyptologist, Jean-Françoise Champollion, ran down the road to shout these words at his brother, before collapsing with ...

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On 14 September 1822 the French scholar Jean-François Champollion burst into his brother’s room, thrust a bundle of notes at him, exclaimed “je tiens mon affaire, vois!”—which crudely translates as “I ...

Archaeologists working at the sprawling ancient necropolis of Saqqara in Egypt just outside Cairo have unearthed five ancient tombs that are over 4,000 years old. Some of the tombs date back to ...