In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...

Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet," which meant "black," after the black fertile silt-layered soil that was left behind each year during the annual innundation, when the Nile flooded the ...

For many years now there has been a debate about whether the ancient peoples of the Nile Valley were 'black' or 'white ... that the ancient civilisation of Egypt was created by a race he called ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient ... of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs.

Pots like these were used to store make-up and cosmetics. Ancient Egyptians decorated their eyes with black kohl eyeliner. Both men and women painted their eyes. Lamps in Ancient Egypt burnt oil ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...