Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus ...

They were copied on papyrus, the most common writing medium used in ancient Egypt. Although the papyri have similarities with more familiar gospels, these particular ancient Christian texts were ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic ...

Among the surviving texts is a document now known as the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus ... by a new form of short-form writing called "Demotic." Egyptian language changed over the millennia ...

The climate of Egypt, especially the desert, is excellent for preserving the writing material created from the local papyrus plant and thus excavations at Egyptian sites such as Oxyrhynchus and ...

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 ...