His 66-year reign during the 19th dynasty is regarded as the pinnacle of the empire's glory and power. The pharaoh said of himself, "He has surpassed everything." Ramses' mummy has been abroad ...

After the Nubian pharaohs lost power, they retreated south from Egypt to form the Kingdom of Kush, which thrived in splendid isolation as the rest of Egypt suffered through repeated invasions from ...

Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Pharaoh (Faraon) is a state-funded superprodukcja, a 152-minute Polish epic, set, incongruously, in ...