Ancient Egypt

Tomb of Siptah, Valley of the Kings (Photo by Pierre TETREL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Q&A Why were cats so important in Ancient Egypt?

Nefertiti

Has the world been blinded by Nefertiti’s beauty?

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A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&A Where is Nefertiti’s mummy?

Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A How many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?

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The Russian revolution and myths of ancient Egypt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

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“The idea that pharaohs were worshipped as all-powerful gods is just plain silly”: John Romer on the truth about ancient Egypt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An acrobat dancer, c1200 BC. (Getty Images)

Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt

Pyramids at Giza. (DEA/A Vergani/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Ancient Egyptian family trees: are present-day Egyptians the descendants of the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids?

Martin Luther King (centre) rides the Montgomery bus with Rev Glenn Smiley of Texas. (Getty Images)

The Library What was history’s most dramatic year?

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Jacobites and the Ancient World . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The most popular historical figures you’ve (probably) never heard of

A combo picture of two images taken 13 August 2002 at Cairo Museum shows a foot of a mummy missing its big toe and beside it a prosthetic toe of leather and wood to replace the amputated real one. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&A How long have people used prosthetic limbs?

Roman garden at the House of the Golden Cupids, Pompeii. (Linda Farrar)

A guide to ancient gardening