Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities explained, “there are many antiquities of Queen Cleopatra, including statues and depictions on coins that confirm the shape and true features of her.

But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming ... tweeting photos of busts and coins depicting the queen. ”Queen Cleopatra” director Tina Gharavi defended the series’ casting decision ...

Cleopatra, countered Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry ... her Greek Macedonian ancestry and coin portraits would seem to confirm. Cleopatra was also a queen in Africa, with a mother of unknown ...

An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission ... length statue of a king wearing the Nemes headdress, 337 coins, many featuring Queen Cleopatra VII’s image, alongside ritual pottery, oil lamps ...

Some extant coins show Cleopatra as a plain-looking woman ... But he wrote about the Egyptian queen hundreds of years after her death—and brought a decidedly Roman viewpoint to his work on ...

Wazari added that statues and depictions on coins of the queen pointed to ... that the recent backlash in Egypt against the casting of James in the role of Cleopatra was due to racist attitudes ...

Coins and statues from the ... the production company behind “Queen Cleopatra,” did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Egyptian lawmaker Saboura al-Sayyed this week repeated ...

Egyptian archeologists ... "There are so few images of Cleopatra from her own time [limited to depictions on coins], that to gaze upon her remains, to see this fabled queen, would completely ...

Blending archaeological artifacts, pop culture imagery, and paintings, an exhibition on Cleopatra explores how the Egyptian ...

Cassius Dio, a Romanian historian described Cleopatra as “a woman of surpassing beauty” yet a 2000-year-old silver coin depicting the Egyptian queen tells a different story. Studied by experts ...

But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming ... tweeting photos of busts and coins depicting the queen. "Queen Cleopatra" director Tina Gharavi defended the series' casting decision last ...