The Egyptian hieroglyphic ankh looks kind of similar to the Christian cross. This has lead some conspiracy theorists to argue that Christians copied the ankh for their own religious symbol: the cross.

The blast of Egyptian culture was irresistible. The sheer magnificence of it ... with the label “hotep,” and he led me to the ...

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to knife ...

A massive Maya landscape has been hiding under a forested area of southern Mexico. The newfound city, dubbed Valeriana, spans an area roughly the size of Beijing and has “all the hallmarks of a ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh perspective on the funerary practices from the 12 th and 13 th ...

Flat Egypt Symbols Composition Flat Egypt symbols composition with Cleopatra Anubis God and pharaoh masks scarab beetle ankh cross camel sphinx Egyptian cat pyramids Horus eye vector illustration ...

The site is located inside the South Asasif necropolis in the city of Luxor, the location of several ancient temples and ruins including the tomb of Tutankhamun and a major hotspot for Egyptian ...

A series of 5,000-year-old mysterious symbols imprinted on ancient cylinder seals made before recorded history could help researchers finally decode large portions of the world’s first written ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...