After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

Imagine being this close to discovering Cleopatra’s lost tomb! A woman archaeologist, Kathleen Martinez, has spent nearly two decades searching for it, and she might have finally cracked the code.

She arrived in Rome for a state visit in 46 accompanied by her son by Caesar, Caesarion, and was apparently unfazed by the disapproving reception she received from members of the Roman ...

He then formally ceded several Roman territories to Cleopatra and their young children. He also declared Cleopatra’s eldest son Caesarion, who was thought to have been fathered by Julius Caesar, the ...

Cleopatra’s seat as Egyptian ruler now seemed secure – she was even pregnant with Caesar’s child (some time between 47 and 44 BC Cleopatra gave birth to a son whom she named Ptolemy Caesar, or ...

But she gets dismissed as a whore when she demands that her four-year-old son, Caesarion, be recognized as Caesar's legal son. Yet the uninvited pair of them is welcomed by Antony at Atia's party.

With respect to the major plotline, the movie is fairly accurate. Cleopatra VII [c. 69 BCE - 30 BCE] did have a son, Ptolemy Caesar (nicknamed Caesarion), presumably with Julius Caesar in 47 BCE.