The monumental, square tomb complex of queen Meret-Neith in Abydos, Egypt. New excavations of the ancient Egyptian queen Meret-Neith's tomb have yielded riches, suggesting she may have been Egypt's ...
Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...
The discoveries of an archaeological team in Egypt are fueling speculation that a woman could have been one of the first pharaohs of the ancient kingdom. A team in Abydos, which is an area along the ...
Who was Queen Hatshepsut and why was she important? Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a prolific builder of ...
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Queen Nefertari's Egypt, on view March 18-July 17, 2022. As the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned 1279-13 BCE), Queen Nefertari had ...
When Queen Nefertiti’s bust was revealed to the world in 1920’s, she caused a commotion in the fashion and beauty industry. “You would see hair salons, for example, in America have replicas of her ...
In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female ...
Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...
The EP behind Netflix‘s Queen Cleopatra docu-drama has defended the casting of an actor of mixed heritage descent in the title role, stating that Adele James reflects the “multicultural nature of ...