The King and Queen will be presented with locally laid ... she was presented with two mallards on a silver tray as part of an ancient tradition dating back to the Middle Ages when six seigneurs ...

Archaeologists just unearthed hundreds of sealed and unopened wine jars at the Umm El Qa’āb necropolis in the ancient city of ... while excavating the tomb of Queen Merneith, who was possibly ...

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were ... the Great's generals and founder of ancient Egypt's last royal dynasty ...

But for one evening in January, modern farming techniques are set aside for an ancient ritual called ... Then the evening’s “wassail queen” (who symbolizes fertility and abundance ...

Vivid, nuanced and steeped in—while healthily skeptical of—ancient sources ... is less straight biography than an appraisal of the queen’s historical reception. The core of her thesis ...

framed the queen’s face. Her mantle of silver silk lamé featured appliquéd scrolls surrounding the traditional crown and double "S" for Sparta and was trimmed in aurora borealis stones and ...

Getty Images But the team contends the discoveries in Meret-Neith’s tomb "(fuel) speculation that Meret-Neith was the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt and predecessor of the later Queen Hatshepsut." ...

The silver used to make an ancient Egyptian queen's bracelets came from Greece, a new analysis finds, offering insight into the Old Kingdom's trade networks. When you purchase through links on our ...

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists have unearthed the pyramid of a never-before known ancient Egyptian queen; a cache of coffins, mummies and artifacts; and a series of interconnected tunnels.

Krewe of Sparta is named after the Saraland High School Spartans. Its emblem is The Messenger, and it has a king and queen each year. Membership is capped at 200. The Krewe participates in ...

Gilded coffin lids from the Pharaonic era, gold funerary masks and what's believed to be fragments of Queen Hatshepsut's ancient temple were among the 25 items accepted in Cairo on Monday.