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

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

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 ...

Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation ... A first-century A.D. Roman would falsely assert that "ancient writers repeatedly speak of Cleopatra's ...

Ancient Egypt was closely connected with other parts of the world, bringing in and exporting goods, religions, food, people and ideas. At times ancient Egypt ruled territory outside the modern-day ...

Cleopatra, the Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt, and Marc Antony, the famous Roman general, conducted part of their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C. At the time, ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures Cool Finds The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle ...

Cleopatra was ... Queen of Egypt, Cyrene and Cyprus, she was renowned for her passionate nature, beauty, intellect and determination to advance the interests of the Ptolemaic legacy. They were masters ...