Pelletier, an Egyptologist at Paris-Sorbonne University, claims to have found seven secret messages on the obelisk.

A French Egyptologist has uncovered seven secret messages hidden on Paris's Luxor Obelisk, revealing ancient Egyptian secrets ...

There, a 20-foot tall obelisk and pedestal, inscribed with hieroglyphics ... he had an epiphany: the Ancient Egyptian “MSS” resembled the Coptic Egyptian word for birth, mise.

The next day, we went to Giza to see the pyramids as well as the Sphinx. It was so surreal to be in the vicinity of both of ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

Some (perhaps all) of the new messages were hidden in the hieroglyphs themselves, a technique known as “crypto-hieroglyphs” used by the ancient Egyptian ... gods through word-play from well ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

Unlike cuneiform (“wedge-shaped”) or hieroglyphics (“sacred carvings”) — names that evoke the distinct essence of ancient scripts — “Chinese character” is vague, impersonal and oddly detached from its ...