Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the 1300s BCE who upended the religious landscape of ancient Egypt. Within years of ...

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

As such, it’s fair to picture the young ruler as a man — but King Tut took the throne when he was just 9 years old — and died only a decade later. Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian by blood.