A mother's desperate hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street aims to secure her son's release from an Egyptian prison.

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning still remains ...