I’ve seen my fair share of mysterious royal portraits, from Kate Middleton’s haunting snapshot on Remembrance Sunday to King ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

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Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

The new Giza attraction may be several years overdue, but there’ll never be a better reason to book your next holiday to ...

The Aga Khan IV was laid to rest on Sunday at a private ceremony in Aswan, Egypt. The death of Prince Karim — the 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims — was ...

An area of low pressure over the main island of Hokkaido in northern Japan caused record amounts of snow to fall in the region. There were considerable traffic disruptions and dozens of flight ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

The formidable Kushites – who, during the 25th Dynasty (which lasted for almost a century, from 744 BC), had also reigned as pharaohs over their erstwhile Egyptian colonisers, to the north ...

from 744 BC), had also reigned as pharaohs over their erstwhile Egyptian colonisers, to the north – are the subject of a compact but compelling new touring exhibition organised by the British Museum, ...

The art of the afish in Egyptian cinema has traversed a long and storied journey, marked by challenges, developments, periods of prosperity, and eventual decline as technology and visual-making tools ...