The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, ...

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After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

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Families can watch all their favourite characters from the beloved CBBC series Horrible Histories and hear the hit television ...

A 2,000-Year-Old pleasure vessel has emerged from the silt of Cleopatra’s harbor, turning a stretch of seafloor off ...

Some fashion photographs are taken in studios, against clean backgrounds, with carefully chosen poses and glances, like how a ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench goes on a festive journey into her family history to discover whether one of her ancestors ever ...