Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type ... ancient Egypt was so influential. People might claim that the Egyptian ...

Astonishingly, the papyri were written by men who participated ... Mark Lehner, the head of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, who has worked on the pyramids and the Sphinx for 40 years, has ...