Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than a political tool. "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885 The struggle with her ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

The burial site of Egypt’s last pharoh, the famous Queen Cleopatra, may soon be revealed to the world. A tunnel – deemed a ‘geometric miracle’ by archaeologists – has been found beneath the ancient ...

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was born in either 70 or 69 BC (it is not known when exactly) and ruled as Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC. She is a descendant of Macedonian ...

Think of Cleopatra and what comes to mind? Egypt? A rolled-up carpet? An asp? Joann Fletcher says no, or at least not quite. In her biography of the last pharaoh of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty, the ...