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Honey has quietly become a staple in beauty routines. It appears in lip masks, facial cleansers, scalp oils and serums.
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The book situates Wilayat’s story in the long afterlife of colonial disruption: The abolition of princely states, dissolution ...
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One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be the last of her dynasty. But while she's often thought to be a great beauty who seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ...
Cleopatra’a Needle in Central Park, NYC. Credit: Szilas. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0.jpg The word “needle” describes these obelisks because of their tall, slender shape. Obelisks were ...
In Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb, the foundation deposits Kathleen Martinez discovered at the temple of Taposiris Magna revealed the first direct link between the temple site and Cleopatra’s family line.
John Hollingworth, the actor playing Antony to Nadia’s Cleopatra, has done so well at absorbing BSL that Nadia jokes that it’s easy to see why Cleopatra fell in love with him. Harmony off-stage has ...
Veteran strategist Julius Caesar mentors the teenage queen of Roman-occupied Egypt.
A break-up in her early twenties led Melburnian Olivia Cummings to Istanbul with a grand total of €200 to her name – and the makings of her jewellery label, Cleopatra’s Bling. “I first went to ...
It wasn’t easy being black and Jewish as a child in the 1970s, though. Parents of her Jewish classmates would complain about black people, then add: ‘We don’t mean you, Sophie.’ ...