As world leaders celebrate a new agreement to limit the impact of greenhouse gases on human society, archaeologists have been taking a fresh look at one of the most dramatic instances of a ...

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom ... The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million ...

One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt ... even marrying him in a nod to Egyptian tradition. But the young king wanted the throne for himself, and civil war soon broke out as they formed ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra ... the biggest prize in the ancient world – her own world came crashing down. In the middle of the civil war that would bring him ...

Had the young pharaoh Ptolemy V been overthrown, events like the Hasmonean revolt (which established a Jewish kingdom ... civil war at Tell Timai – the ruins of the ancient city of Thmouis in ...

Sudan boasts even more pyramids than Egypt, but its treasured archaeological heritage is increasingly under threat from its brutal civil war ... "But in the ancient world it was the centre ...