It’s not every day that archaeologists stumble upon a 4,000-year-old pyramid, let alone one that’s been sealed since antiquity. But in the heart of Egypt’s ancient royal necropolis of Dahshur, that’s ...
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: Osiris ...