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These Egyptian Pharaohs were not to be messed with. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down the most ferocious, ...
D.C., to Miami — to start a new city in Egypt, called Alexandria. He reigned from 367 to 282 B.C., or about 2,300 years ago. Cleopatra, who reigned from 51 to 30 B.C., was the last pharaoh and ...
When The White Lotus first debuted in 2021, no one could have predicted the cultural juggernaut it would become. From its ...
For ten generations her family, the Ptolemies, had styled themselves pharaohs. They were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra about as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor. She and her 10-year ...
Director R.B. Schlather returns to Hudson Hall with a bold new staging of Handel’s blockbuster opera "Giulio Cesare," ...
At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...
Archaeologists discovered a tunnel beneath the ancient city of Taposiris Magna in Egypt that ... 280 and 270 BCE by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus—an ancestor of Cleopatra VII—Taposiris ...
Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in the birthplace of cinema.
The interior, including a cinema theatre with two balconies and walls punctuated with pharaoh ... by Egyptian antiquities in the Musée du Louvre, while others speculate the 1917 film Cleopatra ...
The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?
Rome had emerged victorious: the age of the Pharaohs was dead. Following the deaths of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, the victorious Octavian changed his name to Augustus Caesar and assumed sole control ...