The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

Child: Ancient Egypt is so different from the Egypt of today. Why did they stop building pyramids and huge statues and temples? Abdul: Things have changed a great deal these last 700 years.

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...