February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”. The vid ...

At Karnak, several identical granite gateways stand in alignment — and hieroglyphs appear to translate as “Star Gate.” But ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as the epicenter of recorded human history. […] ...

A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...

Welcome to your month-by-month Egyptian Mythology Reading Challenge for 2026: a structured, immersive journey through gods, mortals, magic, and myth.

This detailed historical narrative traces the extraordinary lifespan of Egyptian hieroglyphs, from their origins in the third millennium BC to their final appearance in AD 394 at the Temple of Isis on ...

Cultivate crops, craft tools, and soak up ancient Egypt in Ancient Farm, a chill sandbox farming sim along the Nile with no fail states.

The rankings are similar to December's, but things may change in the flagship category next month. AnTuTu has just published its rankings for the month ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

Last year, a series of ancient hieroglyphs were discovered in the jungle of Mexico. Now, they have been decoded, revealing the identity of a previously unknown Mayan ruler. INAH Ancient hieroglyphics ...