The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs ... It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

In ancient Egypt, after periods of weakness or disunity, leaders often declared a wehem mesut, literally “repeating a birth”—a renaissance. They turned to ancient symbols as a way of using ...

Sixth grade students at the John F. Ryan School learned about the history of ancient Egypt through a unique educational ...