Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient Egyptian painted relief depicting Pharaoh Ramesses III with Isis. Ancient Egypt, China and Mesopotamia are all ...

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...

Was Cleopatra black? Was Socrates? Did Nile legionnaires conquer the Aegean, setting the cradle of Western civilization in motion? For more than a generation African and African-American scholars have ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization, officially opens on the 1st. It has been praised as a "hall of civilization" that brings together the ...

Ancient Egypt—a civilization that was one of the most powerful the world has ever seen and which lasted for nearly 3,000 years—was among the first to mummify its dead, providing us a window into its ...