ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed rare carvings on an ancient Mayan ball court depicting a powerful snake-themed dynasty. Excavators have uncovered three stucco reliefs that depict scenes of the Kaanu ...
The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving ... everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation.
Carving an exploratory hole in one of the blocks ... Mallakh took 20 months to remove the boat's 1,224 separate pieces. Then a fellow Egyptian, Hag Ahmed Youssef Moustafa, a conservator for ...
The first-ever example of an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a zodiac sign has been discovered at a rock art site on the western bank of the Nile. Consisting of a crudely engraved creature ...