Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new study into a ...

This is the story of ancient Egypt's last act. Witness its dramatic final chapters: rescued from collapse by the Nubian kings ...

Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the ancient world. She was the last of a dynasty that ruled ancient Egypt for around 300 years, from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise ...

Most people are familiar with Cleopatra—she ruled as queen of ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 B.C.E and is famously linked to Julius Caesar. While much of her life's timeline is a mystery, there is one ...

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

Cleopatra’s race and ethnicity have been argued through the years by historians, with many coming to the conclusion that she was primarily of Macedonian Greek descent. “As Egypt’s last pharaoh, ...

Some citizens of Egypt are in a snit over an upcoming Netflix docudrama about the life of Egypt’s last pharaoh, Cleopatra, because the title character is portrayed as a Black woman despite most ...

But not the crowns of three kingdoms, as did the descendant of Alexander the Great’s beloved general, Ptolemy V. Instead Ms. Gadot plays the eponymous character, joins with Laeta Kalogridis in writing ...

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new study into a ...