"Until now, everyone has had pretty much the same fix on Cleopatra: passion's plaything ... her children and whom she seems to have loved), Egypt's queen was a brave and coolheaded political ...

Cleopatra II, daughter of Cleopatra I and sister of Ptolemy VI, ruled Egypt as the latter’s wife, soon to be joined by Ptolemy VIII Euergetes (“opulent”), their brother, also known as ...

The first-century B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the seventh, and last, in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...

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 ...

A significant archaeological find has been made in the ancient Egyptian city of Taposiris ... Magna was established by ...

A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille’s garish Hollywood epic starring Oscar winner Claudette Colbert as the titular Egyptian monarch. An exotic enigma treated ...