Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...

Recognizing the names of Ptolemy V and Cleopatra in Greek as well as two cartouches indicating proper names among the hieroglyphs, Bankes contacted Thomas Young, an English scholar who had ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that ... But others — including Cleopatra, Hatshepsut and Ptolemy I Soter — accomplished great things.

The hieroglyphs revealed that their fathers had ... to the era of Greek rule in Egypt following the Late Period, after Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s top generals, founded a new dynasty ...

One key breakthrough was the recognition of the name ‘Ptolmis’ (the Egyptian version of the name of king Ptolemy) in the hieroglyphic section, as well as the realisation that royal names were enclosed ...

An ‘Old Morganian’ from Bridgwater has remembered his school class of 1966 in his latest novel which looks at the history of the Rosetta Stone.