Late Australian poet Dorothy Porter could take a mere handful of words and do extraordinary things with them. Her sister, ...

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, is full of mysteries. From eerie Egyptian curses that make even the biggest skeptics feel uneasy to a bust that may or may not depict the famous ...

Others include Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Tutankhamun. Yet Thutmose has remained something of a mirage in all of this. We know little about him and, as if to highlight this, as all the other ...

One of them might come with the heading “Daddy issues”. Akhenaten, the Boy King’s (probable) father, was an outlier in the royal line, an iconoclast whose reign was brief but exceedingly ...

In this guest article, investigative historian, author and journalist Tony McMahon explores some of the more eccentric ...

Nefertiti, stepmother of boy king Tutankhamun, ruled Egypt from 1353BC to 1336BC with her husband, the pharaoh Akhenaten. He established his own religion, arousing the wrath of his people.

Shadi Abdel Salam crafted a cinematic tomb—an exquisite meditation on Egypt’s past, identity, and memory. A film that ...

What was it like growing up as a sister of rock star poet Dorothy Porter? Josie McSkimming explains all in Gutsy Girls.