Like other women warriors of Ancient Egypt, Arsinoë III married her brother ... Arsinoë served as queen from 223-203 B.C., and was most famous for leading troops in successful battles during the ...

Ancient Egyptian society gave both women and men moderate rights ... was also inherited by six Egyptian princesses, the most famous of them being Hatshepsut who ruled in the middle of the 18th ...

Let’s start with one of the last, but most famous, Egyptian queens ... still seems to have an aversion to powerful women leaders, the ancient Egyptians accepted—and even welcomed—them?

In Egypt of the 31st century B.C.E., artists frequently focused on images of cows or women with horn-like arms. This was part of a larger, ancient trend which viewed cows as a representation of ...

Marriage contracts and family roles reveal limits to female independence in ancient Egypt, as eldest sons held lasting power.

A monumental builder, she wielded more power than two other famous ancient Egyptian women, Cleopatra and Nefertiti, who unlike her never took the title of pharaoh. But when she died, all traces of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the millennia-old tombs of three senior statesmen, identified by inscriptions left on the tombs. The three sites in the city of Luxor date to the New Kingdom era, ...