There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye. A recent declaration by a leading Egyptian cleric that women will ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

Replica statues of 25th Dynasty Egyptian rulers, also known as the Black Pharaohs. Credit: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra docuseries has caused an ...

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Jewelry was an important part of ancient Egyptian culture. Excavation at the Karnak temple found a 2,600-year-old pot filled with gold jewelry, beads, and statues. The statues of Egyptian gods ...

Parents need to know that Seven Veils is director Atom Egoyan's drama about Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried), a woman who's asked to remount her mentor/former lover's legendary production of Richard Strauss' ...

For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they ...

Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and “Seven Veils” is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma. The film follows Jeanine ...

Each week we invite some of Aotearoa New Zealand's finest song writers into the studio to share their work with us. Today we are joined by The Veils A.K.A Finn Andrews. The Veils released their 7th ...

Jeanine, played by Amanda Seyfried, sits at the focal point of Egoyan's latest film, Seven Veils, as a young director mounting Richard Strauss's Salome. Egoyan wrote the film encouraged by his own ...

And to select cinemas this weekend comes Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils,” a claustrophobic drama about remounting a revered production of the opera. Why such an appetite for the legend of this ...