Taking a performing group on the road this summer can be heart-stopping — and not just because of the horror show at the gas pump. Just ask Hieroglyphics. The sprawling Oakland, Calif., underground ...

Were hieroglyphics the original comics? Epic tales of illustrated super-humans, in neatly arranged columns and rows–it certainly seems possible. Illustrator (and self-proclaimed nerd) Josh Lane ...

According to Aldana, at the end of the 19th century, the German philologist Ernst Förstemann discovered the basis of the modern interpretation of a Venus table in the 13th-century Maya manuscript ...

What do you know about Ancient Egypt, Pandas? I'll be honest – my personal knowledge pretty much begins and ends with the 1999 classic "The Mummy." And it's a shame, since the film is not historically ...

Who invented the alphabet, and why? First, the hard facts: The earliest evidence of what’s thought to be the world’s first alphabet is a group of 3,500-year-old inscriptions found in Egypt’s Sinai ...