Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus ... outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into ...

This is a section from a piece of papyrus (ancient Egyptian paper) that was over 17 feet long. It shows a singer named Nany on her journey into the afterlife. The hieroglyphs are phrases from the ...

This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes a period of famine in Egypt that occurred when the Nile River failed to flood for several years in a row. It was collected from the ...

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Register here for this hybrid talk. This remarkable story started with the excavation by the Egyptian archaeologist Basem Gehad of a grave in the ancient Egyptian city Philadelphia resulting in the ...

Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus ...