Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

The first-century B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the seventh, and last, in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to ...

You'll find an array of queens, princesses and princes buried here, and one of Egypt's most elaborate tombs – the tomb of Nefertari (No. 66) – resides within this valley. Though most of the ...

Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. The tomb of Queen Khennuwa in Meroë. The art adorning this fourth-century B.C. tomb is ...