Experience the creativity and expertise behind this hand-built Egyptian-style pyramid complex, crafted entirely with primitive technology, natural materials, and rudimentary tools. Follow the process ...

In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”. The video has minimal narration; mostly it’s just ...

The technology industry is obsessed with the future. satellites smartphones A.I. chips smart glasses smartphones satellites smart glasses A.I. chips Many of our modern marvels are rooted in the legacy ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

Egypt’s antiquities authority has announced a complete hieroglyphic copy of the Canopus Decree from Tell El-Pharaeen in Husseiniya, Sharqiya. The sandstone stela, a carved stone slab used for public ...

One of the stelae mentioning Ix Ch’ak Ch’een INAH / Octavio Esparza Archaeologists in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have decoded Maya hieroglyphs to identify the name of a sixth-century queen: Ix Ch’ak ...

Last year, a series of ancient hieroglyphs were discovered in the jungle of Mexico. Now, they have been decoded, revealing the identity of a previously unknown Mayan ruler. INAH Ancient hieroglyphics ...

Women played key political roles in Maya civilization throughout the 6th and 7th centuries C.E. Archaeologists at the ruins of Cobá, 70 miles from Chichen Itza, have just named another one of those ...

Editor’s note: This article interviews Glen Beebe, who has made financial donations to UW Libraries in efforts to digitize The Daily. Imagine an office lined with ethnologist Edward Curtis’ ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs are among the oldest writing systems in the world, dating back some 5,200 years. Known in ancient Egyptian as the “language of the gods” and said to have been created by the god ...