We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

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It began more than a century ago, deep within the ancient turquoise mines of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. There, faint carvings ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

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Archaeologists have discovered an oversized inscription that offers a new glimpse into the early development of the Egyptian writing system. A team led by Yale University Egyptologist John Darnell ...

The pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Neferirkare is the tallest in the necropolis of Abusir, where most of the kings of Egypt’s 5th Dynasty were buried. Next to Neferirkare’s monument are the ...

Beginning with its construction in the fourth century B.C. and continuing for more than 800 years, the Temple of Isis on the small island of Philae, set where the Nile flowed out of Nubia, was visited ...