On the night of June 24, A.D. 726, a Maya official named Ajpach’ Waal reached the pinnacle of his career. On that day, he was granted an audience with the thirteenth king of Copán, known to scholars ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from the darkness 3,300 years ago. This 110 kg pure gold coffin once wrapped the mummy of Tutankhamun (r.

Have you ever wanted to learn how to read hieroglyphs? Egyptologist Chris Naunton explores the history of hieroglyphs and how they were decoded. 00:05 History of Hieroglyphs 01:60 Rosetta Stone 04:40 ...