David Degner / Getty Reportage A papyrus Tallet ... previously unknown Egyptian rock inscriptions. “I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating,” he says.

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards ... These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of history. This is in contrast to societies that ...

“The Merer Papyrus provides compelling evidence of how the pyramids were built, and debunks mythological claims that giants ...

The papyrus is datable to the reign of Hatshepsut ... funerary texts offers a new key to understanding the history of Ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The article was written with the ...

Register here for this hybrid talk. This remarkable story started with the excavation by the Egyptian archaeologist Basem Gehad of a grave in the ancient Egyptian city Philadelphia resulting in the ...

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

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The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

For many designers there are a handful of blacklisted fonts that will never get to grace a creative project – many for good reason. Whether it's an outdated design or simply just terrible typography, ...

It promised to be a noble spectacle—except the fix was in. This papyrus, found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and dating to A.D. 267, is apparently the first known bribery contract in ancient sports.