Let’s strip away the myth and take a closer look at Cleopatra’s extraordinary life. Here are 12 facts that offer a richer understanding of one of history’s most remarkable women. Image Credit: Jl ...

During her reign of 21 years, at a time when other states in the eastern Mediterranean were being assimilated by the growing power of Rome, Cleopatra managed to preserve Egyptian independence through ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...

T he world is full of astonishing stories that often get forgotten or overlooked in history classes. This shows that there ...

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The tendency to view history “through the lens of our own era” has become more pronounced in recent years. To measure this unfortunate tilt, one could do worse than compare Stacy Schiff’s “Cleopatra: ...

Egypt’s Supreme Council Of Antiquities (SCA) has added its voice to the row over the portrayal of Cleopatra as a Black woman in Netflix’s upcoming docudrama Queen Cleopatra. The casting of actress ...

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Egypt’s ruler was more than the sum of the seductions that loom so large in history—and in Hollywood Stacy Schiff The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile ...