Here’s how it works. 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 ...

Cairo — As soon as Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming "docudrama" about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, drama started bubbling up online. The preview quickly drew criticism.

Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so ...

By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the ...

Ms. Schiff’s Cleopatra pulses with life. Vivid, nuanced and steeped in—while healthily skeptical of—ancient sources ... the Great’s conquest of Egypt, and the regional succession ...

Experts think they may be one step closer to finding the long-lost tomb of the last Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. Archaeologists have discovered a tunnel underneath an ancient temple in the north of ...

Yet they also caution that projecting modern American racial categories onto Egypt's ancient past is inaccurate. At worst, critics argue, U.S. discussions about Cleopatra's identity overlook ...

AMIR MAKAR/AFP via Getty Images Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday new discoveries made in Alexandria, including an ancient bust that could represent Queen Cleopatra VII.