Royal blood in ancient Egypt flowed through women, making queens the key to succession. From Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, ...

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Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 2,270-year-old gold coin with Queen Berenice II of Egypt and the inscription ...

Reading the news these days is often a depressing and anxiety inducing task. The sources of these modern human malignancies are generally the same: male leaders who want to maintain economic, ...

Tells the stories of three little-known but significant Egyptian queens, revealing how they became the standard-bearers for their sex long before the modern era.

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artifacts returned to Egypt from the United States, the Egyptian ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor went on a vendetta against her, purposefully smashing all her statues to ...

In the 14th century BC, Queen Teje becomes the source of inspiration for a religious revolution that creates chaos in Egypt, and which may pave the way for the world's largest religions. The reign of ...

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Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered hundreds of large ancient jars that contain remains of 5,000-year-old wine. Researchers with a German-Austrian archaeological mission found a vast quantity of ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced ...