Writing of the 1949 black comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” in which Alec Guinness played every member of an eccentric aristocratic family, A.N. Wilson remarked on how “an essentially sad story ...

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 ...

Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

Nefertiti was a Queen during Ancient Egypt's peak of wealth and power. Alongside her husband, she initiated a religious revolution and established a new capital city. Nefertiti served as co-Pharaoh, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Queen Cleopatra,” Netflix’s four-part documentary on perhaps the most famous Queen of Egypt, has been very poorly reviewed. On ...

Archaeologists have identified a rare bronze ring engraved with Ptolemaic Queen Arsinoe III near Russia's Black Sea coast.

Egyptians say the influential streaming service is dragging an ancient queen into a modern, and decidedly Western, debate — about Black representation in Hollywood — in which she has no real place. By ...

A silver albumen print shows a gilded coffin belonging to a 17th Dynasty (ca. 1635–1550 b.c.) Egyptian queen named Ahhotep that was discovered in the necropolis at Dra Abu el-Naga in Thebes in 1859.

Egypt’s Supreme Council Of Antiquities (SCA) has added its voice to the row over the portrayal of Cleopatra as a Black woman in Netflix’s upcoming docudrama Queen Cleopatra. The casting of actress ...

Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important ...

Archaeologists excavating a tomb at Egypt's Umm El Qa'āb necropolis just unearthed hundreds of wine jars dating back 5,000 ...