The first discovered and largest papyrus document written in hieratic script is set to be displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square for the first time since its restoration work was completed, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. What makes this episode stand out is that the two men went on to occupy the opposite extremes of post-war ...

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 ...

Initial announcement of two abnormal hieratic papyri found in Oxford in 1997. P. Queen's College (perhaps of the reign of Piye or Taharqa) is probably a literary text of complex character with a legal ...

In archaeology, as in other sciences, assigning credit for achievements is often controversial. The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the 1820s is an intriguing case. Recognition for this great ...

The Petrie papyri; hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the middle kingdom) / edited by F. Ll. Griffith Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

Essay on group composition (three or more human figures) in works of art from Benin Kingdom, Yoruba, Ijo, Igbo, Bamun, Fon, and Asante. Pasztory concludes that these hieratic compositions had a single ...