However Egyptian civilization existed long before this period, and it has survived and flourished since. While the civilization's rulers, language, writing, climate, religion and borders have changed ...

Ancient Egypt was closely connected with other parts of the world, bringing in and exporting goods, religions, food, people and ideas. At times ancient Egypt ruled territory outside the modern-day ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected ...

Veteran Egyptian diplomat and former Assistant Secretary-General of the Africa Union, Ambassador Ahmed Haggag, has urged African nations to stop blaming Western powers for the continent's challenges ...

The Correspondent is based on the jailing of Australian journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera English colleagues. It is ...

The latest round of talks in Cairo to restore the defunct Gaza ceasefire and free Israeli hostages ended with no apparent ...

Archaeologists think writing developed in several places in the ancient world independently of other writing systems.

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Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.