Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe. Einsamer Schütze/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Jada Pinkett Smith's ...

It's a series about queens of Ancient Egypt. The 3 episodes introduce queens that are less known than Cleopatra or Nefertiti, but that had a great role in Ancient Egypt's history. The 3 queens are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix's forthcoming project, African Queens: Queen Cleopatra, has caused a stir among Egyptian experts for depicting her as ...

Barnsley’s Cleopatra has come home to reign with TV Egyptologist Prof Joann Fletcher’s spectacular new free exhibition celebrating female pharaohs to film stars. And it’s now open. Cleopatra and the ...

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 Egyptians ...

Jada Pinkett Smith is defending her decision to cast a biracial actress as Cleopatra in her new Netflix series, African Queens Reading time 3 minutes Egyptian Queen Cleopatra has captivated the ...

Egyptians say the influential streaming service is dragging an ancient queen into a modern, and decidedly Western, debate — about Black representation in Hollywood — in which she has no real place. By ...

The EP behind Netflix‘s Queen Cleopatra docu-drama has defended the casting of an actor of mixed heritage descent in the title role, stating that Adele James reflects the “multicultural nature of ...

Scientists have discovered sealed jars of wine from 5,000 years ago in an Egyptian queen's tomb. The find, one of the oldest ever, was among the "grave goods" for Queen Meret-Neith in Abydos, from ...

Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important ...