Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, audiences are invited to an audience with Dame Elizabeth Taylor! Call Me Elizabeth, written ...

Think you know the full and complete story about George Washington, Steve Jobs, or Joan of Arc? Think again.

The body of actor Alexander Vysokovsky was found on July 1 in the Oka River. He was 62 years old. Vysokovsky remained in the ...

The Bard wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled in the early 1600s.

Stacy Schiff, read by Robin Miles, Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14.5 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-701-0 From its opening strains of music, this audiobook of Schiff's stellar biography of the ...

Egypt's last pharaoh, Queen Cleopatra, was defeated by Rome at the Battle of Actium on September 2, 31 BC, and ended her life by allowing a venomous snake to bite her. Few events in history combine as ...

Archaeologists have found an enormous 4,300-foot-long underground tunnel underneath Egypt’s ancient temple Taposiris Magna. Undoubtedly, such a discovery will put the site back in the world’s ...

The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth Witch, whore, ...

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Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have long sought to locate her tomb, which she shared with her lover, Mark ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The location of Cleopatra’s burial has remained a mystery since her death, but a sunken port might be a key to finding it. This port is directly ...