There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

Michael Hoffen, a young author, has made a significant contribution to the understanding of ancient Egyptian culture through ...

They didn’t have notebooks or computers, but they came up with something just as brilliant – papyrus! This is a fun and ...

The title refers to a translation of ancient Egyptian funerary texts The Book of the Dead, a collection of writings that, ...

What were Egyptian hieroglyphs? The ancient Egyptians left behind written records on their buildings and on papyrus scrolls but how do we know what the writing means? What did the ancient ...