The Egyptian pharaoh and her lover Mark Antony died by suicide and were buried together more than 2,000 years ago in an ...

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken landscape near the ruins of Taposiris Magna.

When not serving as a Rorschach test of male fixations, Cleopatra is an inexhaustible muse. To a recent best-selling biography add—from 1540 to 1905—five ballets, 45 operas, and 77 plays. She starred ...

The Seleucid Empire was one of the successor states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.

"We're not just actors who use sign language, we're characters and we can play all different types of characters," he tells ...

Explorers uncover a sunken port off Alexandria's coast, raising new possibilities about the location of Cleopatra's lost tomb ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually burned it?

Raye (Rachel Agatha Keen), the British singer and songwriter, is the singer you encounter in Black Rabbit. She appears in episode three of the series titled Skin Contact, and sings her own version of ...

Lady Gaga can consult astrologists all she wants. We’d prefer our world leaders have more robust inner circles, though. 12 ...

Fulvia was the wife of three figures who met violent ends during the late Roman Republic. She also engaged in her own political intrigues.

Meanwhile, in Elizabethan England, gloves were perfumed with rosewater, orange flowers, cloves, musk, civet and ambergris.

An archaeologist from the Dominican Republic thinks she may have found the site of Cleopatra's tomb. Kathleen Martínez ...