Janet Johnson’s interest in Egypt has been a lifelong fascination. “My father was interested in ancient Egypt, so I just read all the books he brought home from the library,” says Johnson, the Morton ...

Over the past two decades, more than 43,000 inscribed shards of pottery known as ostraca have been uncovered in Athribis, ...

Demotic is the script used in Egypt from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. A script to carry the language of trade, administration and everyday life, it is separate from the formal ...

A 37-year project to compile a dictionary of an ancient Egyptian script used for daily communication has been completed, offering an unprecedented look at the words of ordinary ancient Egyptians. The ...

From around 3200 BC all the way to 500 AD, people of the Egyptian empires used hieroglyphics as one of their writing styles. The collected periods of the Egyptian Empire are the longest dynasty in ...

In July 1799, French troops building fortifications for Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign unearthed a strange black basalt slab. It was almost 4 feet tall and nearly 2.5 feet wide; its edges were ...

The ostraca, some dating back to the time just before Cleopatra, were discovered within the ancient ruins of Athribis ...