A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the ...

Imagine holding a piece of broken pottery inscribed by an ancient Egyptian student practicing their letters - or a tax collector tallying grain deliveries along the Nile. Now imagine finding 43,000 ...

Guided by the Rosetta Stone—discovered by Napoleon’s army in 1799 and showcasing three parallel inscriptions in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek—the penurious, ...

Inscriptions found include notes on exercises by schoolchildren, religious texts, and certificates for the quality of ...

Ceramic fragments lay on the ground at the Garoa Hallagana rock art site, in Ennedi Ouest province, Chad, on July 10, 2025. JORIS BOLOMEY JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images Imagine holding a piece of ...