Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well ...

[Papyrus Lausing BM 9994] The whole Rhind Mathematical ... And, interestingly, it's not written in hieroglyphs, but in a particular kind of administrative short-hand that's much quicker, much ...

The hieroglyphic text of the papyrus of Senemnetjer, along with its illustration, identifies it as a funerary writing of a magical-funerary nature that served to guide and aid the deceased in the ...

This is a section from a piece of papyrus (ancient Egyptian paper) that was over 17 feet long. It shows a singer named Nany on her journey into the afterlife. The hieroglyphs are phrases from the ...

Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus ...