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 ...

Netflix said on Wednesday that it is releasing a new documentary about the life of Queen Cleopatra but with one significant change, her ethnicity. For the nth time, the Egyptian Queen ...

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period ... or for his Roman rival Octavian. Perhaps Cleopatra’s real miscalculation was to have expected too ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...