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, ...

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 ...

Pyramids tell us about the fabulous lives of great pharaohs, who died surrounded by symbols of wealth and privilege. But the story of the ordinary people who built them is less often told.

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the federal and state governments has ratified the 2015 Academies' Program, coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities and worth ...

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 ...

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 ...