Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian city may depict Cleopatra VII, the Egyptian queen who romanced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, according to the ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century ... A first-century A.D. Roman would falsely assert that "ancient writers repeatedly speak of Cleopatra's insatiable libido." ...

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ... next 20 years. Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest ...

Ancient historians praised her allure ... as did most of the dynasty’s queens. Cleopatra VII was born in Egypt, but she was descended from a lineage of Greek kings and queens who had ruled ...

Gadot weathered some criticism that her casting as Cleopatra was "whitewashing" after the film was first announced in 2020, though she noted at the time that the ancient Egyptian queen was ...

Queen Cleopatra' was directed by British-Iranian ... s possible Egyptian ancestry and the multicultural nature of ancient Egypt.” Nevertheless, to drum up interest, the show’s trailer gave ...

So his story is just that—a story. He claims that while under guard in her tomb, tending to the body of Antony following the surrender of Egyptian forces to the Roman general Octavian, Cleopatra chose ...