A chance discovery by French soldiers in Egypt in 1799 unearthed a stone block bearing inscriptions in three ancient scripts.

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Would you think more carefully about what you write on those little yellow Post-it notes if you knew they were going to be preserved for over 2,000 years? Recently, archeologists have discovered a ...

Language Spoken in Ancient Egypt: There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world today. Some have been around for thousands of years, while others are much newer. Tamil, Sanskrit, Chinese ...

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Humans have always needed a place to jot things down. Long before sticky notes and smartphone reminders, the people of ancient Egypt recorded their shopping lists, school exercises, religious ...

Before the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egypt was shadowy and mysterious with towering monuments, magical names, and an unknown antiquity, though most Western scholars believed that ...

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 ...

Researchers in Egypt have discovered a massive trove of what amount to ancient notepads. The 43,000 ostraca—sherds of broken pottery onto which Egyptians scrawled short messages—were excavated from ...

On 11 March, a joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission uncovered approximately 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis located in Sohag Governorate, ...

Think you’ll forget it? Write it down. Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over ...