Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? Joyce Tyldesl...

For nearly two thousand years after the last pharaoh ruled Egypt the wonders of this ancient cult...

Egypt's Queen-or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King-Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peac...

A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discov...

Little is known about the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, yet she is one of the most famous women who e...

In a companion book to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley re-tells some...

In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek ...

Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt are given a li...

'This readable anthology is a good introduction to a civilization that fascinates like few others...

She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centu...

'... With a narrative skill not devoid of irony, Tyldesley uses the discovery and the life of Tut...