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A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Your guide to Egypt’s sun queen Nefertiti

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Medieval Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions

Tutankhamun death mask

Quiz Tutankhamun: do you know all the boy king’s secrets?

Cleopatra bust. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cleopatra: unpicking myth from reality

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world

100 women who changed the world

Women’s history podcasts: 18 HistoryExtra episodes not to miss

Michael Goodman responds to your questions on the decades of geopolitical tension that shaped relations between east and west in the second half of the 20th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

Toby Wilkinson gives a lecture on the archaeologists and adventurers whose discoveries helped transform our understanding of the ancient Egyptians

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology

Egyptologist Aidan Dodson explores the life, death and afterlife of ancient Egypt’s sun queen. (Image by Getty Images)

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh

Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley responds to listener questions about everyday life in ancient Egypt, from governance to dental care and cat mummies. (Image by Getty Images)

Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know

Alphonse de Neuville's 1880 painting 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift'. The battle was to become a

The battle of Rorke’s Drift: a stand still clad in the “myths of empire”

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Maaza Mengiste on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Ethiopia 1935: The real history behind The Shadow King

Chris Naunton at BBC History Weekend

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

Britain’s black trailblazers: 7 pioneers who changed British history