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

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time Ellen Wexler ...

Historians generally agree that King Arthur, if he existed at all, would have lived in the fifth or sixth century AD, making it impossible for him to have had any connection to these ancient ...

Yet that’s exactly what’s happening now at London’s Old Vic. The ancient King of Thebes, famed for slaying his father and marrying his mother, is being played by Rami Malek — who won an ...

Scientists Use Ancient DNA to Shed Light on Adaptation of ... Oct. 25, 2024 — A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid ...