The idea of Ancient Egypt has mystified people for generations — the glittering cities of gold and marble, lapis lazuli-adorned queens, and pyramids that spear the sky have the modern world’s ...

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 ...

A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt -- including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for ...

Even back in the early 1990s when they were putting together the original Stargate movie, filmmakers Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) and Dean Devlin (The Ark) knew they had to get the little ...

This ancient Egyptian papyrus, now at Macquarie University, is decorated with an image of two bird-like creatures. A magical spell written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that uses the Greek alphabet, ...

Journalists take part in a protest against the detention of Ahmed Ramadan, a photojournalist with the private Egyptian newspaper "Tahrir," in front of the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo, Egypt, ...

Egypt and China celebrated on Tuesday evening the launch of a Chinese language club in the Egyptian capital Cairo, while awarding the winners of the local Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition for ...

An Arabic linguist advises Iraqi soldiers on how to set battle positions to avoid friendly fire during a training event at Camp Taji, Iraq, in 2015. (Sgt. Cody Quinn/Army) Over the past several years, ...

Students show their paper cutting works at the closing ceremony of the first Chinese language summer camp in Cairo, Egypt, on July 18, 2023. More than 100 students from Egyptian governmental ...