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 ...

It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman," Hawass tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus. As Jarus explains, pharaohs were portrayed in Egyptian art styles during the Ptolemaic dynasty, not Roman.

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

In Egypt, home to another vast empire thousands of years earlier, Queen Cleopatra had her eyes on the Roman prize – all she needed was a helping hand, which she found in Marc Antony. He had ...