The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.

Cairo — As soon as Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming "docudrama" about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, drama started bubbling up online. The preview quickly drew criticism. Some ...

Death. No religion can avoid the subject, but the ancient Egyptians—who thrived between 3100 B.C. and 332 B.C.—built their faith around it. The worldly life, proclaimed the priests, was just a ...

Of course, Black Americans aren’t the only ones who fetishize ancient Egypt. In the 18th and 19th centuries, many European and American thinkers participated in an Egyptology craze.

Were the ancient Egyptians Black? A Dutch museum show's King Tut mask and Netflix's Cleopatra documentary reignite a long running controversy ...

A DEMON tale so dark it was banned from the bible has been discovered on an ancient pendant in Turkey. Archaeologists found inscriptions on a fifth century amulet that depicted King Solomon having … ...

Home Local News Ancient kings are cautionary stories. The Rev. Landon Coleman, right, and his co-author, the Rev. Corey Speer, show their new book on the kings in the Books of Kings and Chronicles.

The 1st century BCE king of Pontus, a kingdom on the Black Sea coast, earned his nickname by creating poisons and antidotes—and testing them on himself.

Sarah Clarke was appointed as the new Black Rod on 17 November 2017. She formally took on the duties as Lady Usher of the Black Rod in February 2018. In full, her title is Lady Usher of the Black Rod.

Dive beneath the pyramids of Sudan's black pharaohs. The 2,300-year-old royal tomb of a Kushite king appears nearly untouched—and submerged in rising groundwater.

The new sculpture, I Am Hip-Hop (2019), is on view in an exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands, that explores the ways that Black musicians have taken ...