A very different kind of woman, the Virgin Mary, would subsume Isis as entirely as Elizabeth Taylor has subsumed Cleopatra. Our fascination with the last queen of Egypt has only increased as a ...

Modern historians agree that the queen of Palmyra did not ... Turkey, and Egypt. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire; nor ...

such as Ancient Egyptian Queens Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, or Queen Boudicca of the Iceni, women's actual involvement in politics started during the late 19th ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

Using Strabo's ancient descriptions of Egypt, Martinez sketched ... B.C. wears a dress typical of Ptolemaic queens. Given the association of those women with Isis, the knot in the fabric is ...

Ancient statue discovered at Egyptian temple may be rare Roman bust of Cleopatra - Not everyone is convinced statue belongs to legendary queen ...

Davis Collection Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from its original form and updated to include new information for Smithsonian’s Mysteries of the Ancient World bookazine published in ...

Unlike the women of North Africa ... vomiting and diarrhoea. Cleopatra, the ancient Egyptian Queen known for her beauty, is said to have regularly bathed in milk to keep her skin soft and glowing.

The ancient Egyptians were ruled by kings and queens were called pharaohs ... This is a painted cartonnage (mummy case) for a woman. It has a gilded face and a scarab beetle pendant.