For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient ...

A deep dive into the Egyptian gods and goddesses (their characteristics, myths, and symbols) who held significant sway over the lives of ancient Egyptians.

Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

Some of the most famous decipherments of other ancient scripts were made largely due to the presence of bilingual or trilingual inscriptions. For example, during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt ...

On the ground floor of the museum, there is a breathtaking sculpture gallery filled with ancient Egyptian monuments. One of the most famous artifacts is the Rosetta Stone, a stone slab inscribed with ...

Egypt's "lost city of gold" has been fully excavated after four years of painstaking work, archaeologists have announced. The ...

Archaeologists have struck gold after Egyptian officials announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining settlement buried ...