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Arts & Culture
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Music
5/24/2023 10:13:42 PM
Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ‘70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/22/2023 3:34:21 PM
This year marks 111 years since the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt discovered the beautiful limestone bust of the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti in Tel El-Amarna, Upper Egypt, and secreted it out of the country.
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World
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International
5/18/2023 6:29:53 PM
Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral and related events following her death last September cost UK taxpayers nearly £162 million ($201 million), the government revealed on Thursday in its first public estimate.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/11/2023 8:07:21 PM
Egyptian renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass has on Wednesday released a documentary on the life of Cleopatra, the same day Netflix began streaming a controversial production depicting the ancient queen as black.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
5/11/2023 12:28:13 PM
Fans flocked to a Sao Paulo park Wednesday to say an emotional farewell to Brazil's 'Queen of Rock,' the trailblazing singer-songwriter Rita Lee, who died this week at age 75.
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World
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International
5/7/2023 11:29:31 AM
Britain on Sunday celebrates the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla with street parties around the country and a concert at Windsor Castle.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/6/2023 10:40:00 PM
There is no evidence to suggest that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra had African features.
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World
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International
5/6/2023 10:30:26 PM
In the fairy-tale ending to the ancient pageantry in which King Charles III was crowned monarch, he stepped into a gilded horse-drawn carriage with his queen and rode off to his palace.
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World
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International
5/6/2023 5:51:48 PM
Now that she has been crowned alongside her husband, King Charles III's wife is officially known as Queen Camilla.
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World
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International
5/6/2023 5:40:34 PM
Leaders in the United States and Europe sent congratulations to Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla on their coronation on Saturday, while China called for "cooperation" and "peace".
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World
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International
5/6/2023 5:09:09 PM
Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms on Saturday at Britain's first coronation for 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a millennium of ritual and spectacle.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/2/2023 9:20:36 PM
The Netflix docudrama on the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra is a clear case of ideologically motivated cultural appropriation, writes Ioannis E Kotoulas
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/30/2023 5:34:52 PM
Egyptian newly-launched free satellite documentary channel AlWathaeqya unveiled Sunday that they are planning a big production about Queen Cleopatra VII.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
4/28/2023 1:51:04 PM
Ahram Online spoke to a number of prominent Egyptian archeologists and historians about the ongoing controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra’s ethnicity and race that erupted following the release of a trailer for the upcoming Netflix docuseries.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
4/26/2023 6:36:03 PM
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Egypt
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Society
4/18/2023 8:45:54 PM
Netflix's upcoming historical documentary miniseries, Queen Cleopatra, has drawn criticism from Egyptians with former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass criticising the series for providing inaccurate information about ancient Egypt.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/16/2023 11:10:12 AM
The trailer for Netflix's upcoming historical documentary series, Queen Cleopatra, has sparked controversy among many Egyptians who believe it promotes "false Afrocentric ideas."
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
3/17/2023 3:50:29 PM
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Egypt
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Tourism
3/16/2023 5:49:01 PM
Belgium's Queen Mathilde and Crown Princess Elisabeth, duchess of Brabant, visited archaeological sites in Egypt’s Luxor governorate on Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/15/2023 9:23:00 PM
A temporary exhibition recalling Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians’ journeys to Egypt was inaugurated at the Baron Empain Palace in Heliopolis this week.
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