This video explores the life and significance of Queen Nefertari, the Great Royal Wife of Ramses II. Nefertari was highly ...

Some have even claimed it is depicted in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, though these assertions have been contested. Whatever its place in arm wrestling’s origin story, Africa is not looking ...

Ancient Egypt is renowned for its monumental architecture, hieroglyphic writing, and influential culture that shaped much of North Africa and the Mediterranean. Cairo is the capital of Egypt ...

He published his findings in 1824, and hieroglyphs soon transformed from ... to admit that an African civilization created works of art and voiced monotheism thousands of years before Europe ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, inscribed on Hadrian’s Gate in AD 394, Philae, Egypt. Credit: Following Hadrian. CC BY 2.0/flickr ...

Egyptian officials have announced that a 3,000-year-old mining settlement, known as the "Lost City of Gold," has been ...

Inscribed and preserved in 4,000-year-old pyramids in Egypt’s necropolis of Saqqara, the mortuary texts consist of more than 600,000 hieroglyphs and form a vast repository of ancient Egyptian language ...

The ability to read and write hieroglyphs waned with the advent of ... practiced in Egypt and in other parts of northern Africa. The 1822 breakthrough, exactly 200 years ago, was a remarkable ...

‘Hieroglyphics of Womanhood’ is comforting to see. One sees nudity without vulgarity, and expression without denigration of the subject addressed. Because traditionally speaking, African art ...

Today’s Wonder of the Day was inspired by jasper. jasper Wonders, “What are hieroglyphs?” Thanks for WONDERing with us, jasper! In ancient Egypt, the people who wrote with hieroglyphs were called ...

Africa’s history is filled with accounts ... constructed monumental structures like the pyramids but also developed hieroglyphics, one of the earliest writing systems. The governance models ...