Egypt is celebrating the bicentenary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the creation of Egyptology with a batch of new events and a social media campaign To mark one of the most ...

'Teen Mom' star Farrah Abraham sparked online debates while on a trip to Egypt with her daughter, Sophia, where they got ...

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

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

The birth of writing could be 40,000 years earlier than previously thought after scientists found etchings in a German cave.

Securing our information and our technologies has become critical in this shifting and uncertain geopolitical context.

Snowy owls are beautiful and lovable, just ask any Harry Potter fan. But paparazzi are making their life difficult, and ...