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

The Egyptian queen, shown here ... Octavian magnified Cleopatra to hyperbolic proportions to do the same with his victory—and to smuggle Mark Antony, his real enemy and former brother-in-law ...

ABUSIR, Egypt (CNN)-- Today, I met Cleopatra's lawyer. Well, not her lawyer but someone who is determined to defend the legendary queen against centuries of bad publicity. Kathleen Martinez is a ...

So her rule of Egypt was over, but her legacy lived on. Her three children were taken to Rome and raised by Mark Antony’s widow. One of her daughters. Cleopatra Selene, later became a queen ...

Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean. With Caesar already notorious for his sexual energy, the two became lovers almost immediately. The following ...

Dive into Cleopatra’s epic story of ambition and tragedy, as Lone Star Ballet fuses classical dance with modern flair in ...

has long believed that the Taposiris Magna could house the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen. Cleopatra VII was deeply connected to the goddess Isis - wife of Osiris and mother of Horus ...

The legendary last queen of Egypt was the wealthiest, most powerful woman in the world. Today, she remains one of the most famous women of history and a pop culture icon. Yet, the real Cleopatra ...

Throughout the years, archaeologists have discovered ancient mummies adorned with gold tongues and nails, along with a bust that may depict the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII in Alexandria ...

Cleopatra’s story has been done to death since the beginning of cinema. More than 20 adaptations in film and TV have been made about the Egyptian queen, including two Bollywood adaptations and ...

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic ...