It has been suggested that Cleopatra, the last active ruler of the kingdom of Egypt, may have died from carbon monoxide ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...

By taking the effigy literally, most sources suggest that a snake must have been smuggled in to her, though less-known accounts claim that Cleopatra ‘carried poison in a hollow hairpin about ...

Julius Cesar and Cleopatra in the Horrible Histories TV series After the stuff about hiding in carpets, bathing in milk and being bitten by snakes (more on some of that later), the most famous ...