Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

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

First, the long breath, held for some 15 months, must find some space merely to exhale into days not filled by pounding fear. People must reestablish some sense of their own humanity, a beginning ...

The danger of being an absolute ruler is that no one dares tell you ... who had ruled for nearly three decades. In 2012 Egypt held its first ever democratic presidential election, which was ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

The Sphinx, which embodies the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh, is believed to be the head of Khafre and his guardian spirit for his entire burial complex. Carved from the natural ...

King Fuad 1 1868-1936 The sultan and later the king of Egypt and Sudan King Fuad 1, is the ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he substituted the title of king for sultan ...