The Rosetta Stone on display at the British Museum in London AMIR MAKAR / AFP. The puzzle was complete. Everything was in place for the language of the ancient Egyptians to emerge from the darkness.

In ancient Egypt, writing was a guarantee of power and of continuity after death. In 1822, ... "The classical language, the one transcribed by hieroglyphs, ...

The black inks that ancient Egyptians used for writing on papyrus texts were made, in part, of metal. A collaboration of international researchers revealed for the first time that despite having ...

Here's how old ancient Egypt really is, ... a professor emerita of archaeology and classical studies at Boston University, ... Egypt unified under a pharaoh, and a writing system, ...