As the land of Cleopatra and one of the Seven Wonders of the World, ancient Egypt oozes attention to detail. It’s within this complicated and …

Women in ancient Egypt played an important role in many aspects of daily life and religion. They had equal rights to men with regards to the property …

The First Intermediate Period (ca. 2181-2040 BC), commonly misconstrued as a purely dark and chaotic time in Egyptian history, immediately followed …

The pharaohs of Egypt presided over a huge kingdom for thousands of years, taming vast stretches of wilderness, erecting monuments that have stood …

The tomb of Tutankhamun is one of the most fascinating discoveries ever made, but it wasn’t an intact discovery. It had been looted twice in …

In this third article on hieroglyphic signs in Egyptian writing and art, we will look at a number of signs representing objects. Egyptians would have …

This is the second article in a series of three that will teach you about the translation of some hieroglyphs, their meanings in the Egyptian written …

Cuneiform writing was the most widespread form of written communication created and used in the ancient Middle East. Clay cuneiform tablets and reed …