Taylor Swift is trading in pastels and sepia tones for something bolder. The singer announced her twelfth studio album, The ...

The moment Audrey Hepburn traversed the screen in her black evening gown and pearls, the look became an instant classic.

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

Remittances from Egyptian expatriates represent the second-largest official source of foreign currency after export revenues. The increased circulation of foreign currency in banks and exchange ...

Egyptian Actress Wafaa Amer has now become the victim of a widespread defamation campaign alleging that she is involved in organ trafficking.

The gold dress, cape, and headdress worn by Taylor in the scene where Cleopatra goes to Rome has got to be one of the most iconic movie costumes of all time. In fact, the cape was made of 24-karat ...

The new season of TCM's 'The Plot Thickens' explores the production history of the notorious epic through the lens of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced a complete DNA set from an ancient Egyptian man, the oldest studied sequence, dating to when the pyramids were constructed.

For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The approximately 5,000-year-old dye wasn’t a single color, but instead ...

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda John Adams’s opera sizzles and then loses steam in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s 1930s-set production.

The Grand Egyptian Museum King Tut galleries prepares for their grand opening, with the arrival of his ceremonial chair.

The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods.