The leading archaeologist in the excavation, Kathleen Martinez, has long believed that the Taposiris Magna could house the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen. Cleopatra VII was deeply ...

Ancient Egypt was an incredibly advanced culture ... including Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphic. Records from the Roman and Island Periods were also uncovered, again highlighting the site's ...

He made two trips to Egypt ... that the other was that of Cleopatra, Young made a huge breakthrough, adding the letters “A” and “R” to the hieroglyphic alphabet and identifying determiners ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Since Greek was understood, the hieroglyphs could then be translated into modern European languages, so the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic ... records of ancient Egypt give us ...

For good measure, the mummy lay in a silver coffin, inscribed with hieroglyphic ... from the government of Egypt for “The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt,” which opened ...

A 3,600-year-old tomb has been discovered 23 feet below ground in Abydos, Egypt. The burial ... "However, the hieroglyphic texts were damaged by ancient tomb robbers, and not enough survives ...

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ... the winter of 48 BC in Egypt. There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would ...

A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille ... and revulsion by the Roman elite, the race of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen is not what seems to preoccupy the ...