As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

These tablets were initially unearthed back in 2004 ... “All the other evidence favors Semitic speakers in Egypt in the Middle Bronze Age. So to have Syria and the Early Bronze Age, it ...