Image Credit: Jl FilpoC - CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. While Cleopatra is synonymous with ancient Egypt, her lineage was Macedonian Greek. She descended from Ptolemy I, a general under Alexander the ...

Discovery’s Science Channel will re-create what Queen Cleopatra may have looked like through the use of modern technology and explore other legends of Ancient Egypt in “Egypt’s Unexplained Files,” its ...

Eyes ringed with kohl, her lithe body draped in a tunic, Cleopatra VII has been memorialized ad nauseam in numerous art forms, from paintings and opera to film and a seemingly endless string of books.

She is known in pop culture as simply Cleopatra, although there were six Egyptian queens before her with the same name. Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) was the last pharaoh in the Ptolemy dynasty, and ...

Netflix has found itself at the centre of a debate over the casting of Cleopatra in a new documentary series. Arriving on the streaming service in May, the four-part documentary Queen Cleopatra (a ...

Recent archaeological discoveries and scholarly research are shedding new light on the reign of Cleopatra VII, the last ...

Cairo — As soon as Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming "docudrama" about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, drama started bubbling up online. The preview quickly drew criticism. Some Egyptians ...

Eyes ringed with kohl, her lithe body draped in a tunic, Cleopatra VII has been memorialized ad nauseam in numerous art forms, from paintings and opera to film and a seemingly endless string of books.