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 ...

Imagine being this close to discovering Cleopatra’s lost tomb! A woman archaeologist, Kathleen Martinez, has spent nearly two decades searching for it, and she might have finally cracked the code.

Le Louxor is an art deco cinema with decorations referencing ancient ... was influenced by Egyptian antiquities in the Musée du Louvre, while others speculate the 1917 film Cleopatra was a ...

Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Cleopatra, the last queen of Ancient Egypt, received a high level of education, including studying philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the sunset call to prayer, the site guardian popped his head into the Temple of Amun and said he would ...

We're in Egypt, at Giza ... does by its conjuring of the people in the streets of its ancient cities, the political intrigue around Cleopatra, the scholars milling in the great library.

They were masters of ancient Rome ... historical epic 1963 film Cleopatra. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/ Getty Images) Caesar – a man some 30 years her senior – seems to have been instantly ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian ... Roger Anis After Cleopatra ended her life in 30 B.C., bringing the Ptolemaic era to an end, Rome ruled Egypt. Whereas the Greeks had ...

Dagli Orti / De Agostini Picture Library / Bridgeman Images; DEA / G ... them after the marriage of his daughter Cleopatra (no connection with the Egyptian queen) in October.