Smithsonian Magazine

How White Southerners Distorted the History of Ancient Egypt to Justify Slavery in the U.S.

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...
Greek Reporter

Cleopatra, The Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt

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

Scientists found opium in an ancient Egyptian vase. King Tut may have taken it.

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. An ancient alabaster vase ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh’s boat is being reassembled in public at the Grand Egyptian Museum

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall. Staff began piecing together the cedarwood boat, one of two that ...