When I was a kid, my parents used to say, “Stop wasting time on those games and do your homework.” Fast forward a few years, ...

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Downton Abbey is finally returning to our screens, for what may well be the very last time. Arriving in cinemas on 12 ...

In high school, I joined all of the clubs that had travel opportunities to out-of-state conferences.In college, I studied ...

As friends raised their coffee mugs to toast her 107th birthday, Bea Lumpkin pushed back her chair, stood and lifted her fist ...

A copy of the Decree of Canopus, which was vital in breaking the enigma of hieroglyphics, has been found at a site north of ...

Led by a guide and driver, a photojournalist embarked on a three-day, two-night excursion that took her deep into one of the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a rare hieroglyphic Canopus Decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy III at Tell al-Faraun.

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Twenty years of planning and construction. A billion-dollar budget. Nearly 50,000 artifacts spanning more than 5,000 years.

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Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?