Lest her subjects resent her Roman overtures, Cleopatra embraced Egypt's traditions. She is said to have been the first Ptolemaic pharaoh to bother to learn the Egyptian language. While it was ...

Queen Cleopatra. When her father, Ptolemy Xll, died, he willed her to be co-pharaoh of Egypt, along with her younger brother, Ptolemy XllI, whom she married, according to the Egyptian custom of ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

The Abydos Dynasty was one of the most mysterious dynasties spanning the whole of ancient Egypt. Centered around ... carries inscriptions worthy of a pharaoh – but no mummified body.

Mr Litherland told the Observer he suspects this second site will hold the pharaoh's mummified body. The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization displays a mummy said to be that of Thutmose II ...

A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille’s garish Hollywood epic starring Oscar winner Claudette Colbert as the titular Egyptian monarch. An exotic enigma treated ...

It's the first pharaoh's tomb to be ... tombs belonging to other rulers of Egypt: Nefertiti; Ramesses XIII; the 21st-dynasty high priest of Amun, Herihor; Cleopatra VII; and Alexander the Great.

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...

The Egyptian cobra, known for its ancient Egyptian iconography, is a venomous snake measuring up to 2.4 meters. Found in Africa and the Arabian Penins ...

The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found for the first time since the discovery of Tutankhamun more than a century ago. The tomb of Thutmose II has been found by a joint British-Egyptian ...