The knowledge of writing is not very old compared to human history. It was only invented 5,000 years ago. It is one of the ...

Part of The World Around Us Ancient Egypt Year 3 Year 4 This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek.

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

Learn more about some recent discoveries: In Egypt, a massive stone block weighing about 40,000 pounds was moved to reveal a forgotten chamber in a 2,000-year-old temple near Sohag. This discovery ...

But the letters of ordinary people, preserved on papyri in Egypt, show us what they were thinking and doing. Human nature, their contents suggest, hasn’t changed much. Sometime in the 3rd ...

The Abdelzaher family is the last to preserve Cairo’s ancient bookbinding craft, keeping the tradition alive in the digital ...