Hundreds of coins that depict Cleopatra VII have been discovered in an Egyptian temple. The archaeologist who led the team ...

The head of a statue depicting Cleopatra - Copyright AFP Banaras KHAN The head of a statue depicting Cleopatra - Copyright AFP Banaras KHAN An Egyptian archaeologist ...

Two-part The Race for Ancient Egypt in Colour focuses on Egypt in the years between the World Wars. In 1922, Howard Carter’s ...

CAIRO, July 16 (Reuters) - The female stars of an Egyptian street theatre troupe that is the subject of a prize-winning documentary film said they set out to challenge attitudes to women's role in ...

For Ekaterina Yakovleva, Head of Documentary Broadcasting at RT, film is “people’s diplomacy” — a bridge of understanding between nations. Speaking to Ahram Online during the Time of Heroes forum in ...

“It’s not every day that academic discussion of ancient history makes the news,” Queen Cleopatra executive producer Jane Root recently pointed out (via Deadline). Indeed, the academic discussion of ...

Egypt‘s Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has responded to controversy surrounding the casting choice for Netflix‘s Queen Cleopatra documentary. The government agency has declared that Cleopatra was ...

The Egyptian antiquities ministry has said that Cleopatra was “white-skinned” amid a casting row surrounding Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra. In the documentary, which is being narrated by Jada Pinkett ...

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...

*An Egyptian lawyer is seeking to ban Netflix in the country because a Black actress portrays Cleopatra in “African Queens: Queen Cleopatra,” a documentary set to debut on the platform in May.

As Egypt and Russia continue to deepen their cultural ties, film has emerged as a particularly dynamic field of cooperation. The recent RT Documentary “Time of Heroes” forum in Cairo offered a new ...