The Ancient Egyptian Goddess, Cleopatra, has been in the news recently thanks to a new Netflix series that might have taken ...

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 ...

Egypt’s ruler was more than the sum of the seductions that loom so large in history—and in Hollywood Stacy Schiff The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile ...

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 ...

It wasn’t always easy for women to make big money, but these ladies of centuries past did it in style. What was the secret of ...

From full-fledged cities to ancient, powerful temples, ocean floors across the world have often revealed some of history’s most thrilling secrets. Not only this, but divers and archaeologists have ...

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned 400 years earlier, were dangerous. We do not know whether Cleopatra ...