A new exhibit in a Dutch museum explores how Black musicians have drawn inspiration and pride from the idea that ancient Egypt was an African culture. Egyptians say it distorts their history and ...

Art & Exhibitions A Major New Show Traces 200 Years of Black Artists’ Synergistic Relationship With Ancient Egypt. The Met's enthralling "Flight into Egypt" is more about reclamation than escape.

Baboon mummy DNA from ancient Egypt reveals location of ... Israel — and it was from a faraway land; Though Punt was mentioned in ancient Egyptian documents, it was never identifiable on a map.

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. Some ...

The 40-mile-long river branch, which ran by the Giza pyramid complex, was hidden under desert and farmland for millennia, scientists said.

Cleopatra was descended from a line of Macedonian Greek kings who ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C., when it was annexed by Rome, and many scholars contend that she likely had little, if any ...