Ancient Egypt lasted so long that its most famous queen arrived late in the civilization’s story. Cleopatra VII ruled when ...

Zahi Hawass writes about the legendary Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, more than 2,000 years after the death of the most fascinating woman of the ancient world Of all the queens who have ever ruled, none ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleopatra (centre) is played by a black actress, Adele James, in the new Netflix docudrama series. Image courtesy Netflix During ...

The Hunt explores art and ancient relics that are—alas!—lost to time. From the Ark of the Covenant to Cleopatra’s tomb, these legendary treasures have long captured the imaginations of historians and ...

It couldn't have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

Archaeologists say that a site on Egypt’s Nile Delta may offer fresh clues to the final resting place of the famous Queen Cleopatra. Experts are focusing their attention on the ancient site of ...

Ancient Egypt gets filed in most people’s heads as a single block of time.