Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt roughly 3,500 years ago, taking over following the death of her husband Thutmose II.

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Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

For centuries, depictions of Cleopatra have emphasised her beauty and romantic entanglements – much more so than her ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...

Beneath an ancient Egyptian temple, archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious tunnel that could hold the key to one of history’s most elusive secrets. This remarkable discovery has raised new hopes ...

For the French soldiers who imagined themselves as the conquering Romans in Egypt, Fourès was the Cleopatra to Napoleon’s Caesar. The comparison to the ancient Ptolemaic queen of Egypt was certainly a ...

Like Roman concrete, the makeup of this “Egyptian blue” – the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, used as far back as 5,000 years ago – has been semi-lost over time.Now, thanks to a ...

That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. This definitive portrait restores the Egyptian queen to her rightful historical status as a ...

The dress was found by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1913 as he excavated a mastaba — a large, rectangular, flat-topped Egyptian tomb — near the town of Tarkhan, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south ...