Serpent of the Nile? Learned ruler? Sex Kitten? Ambitious mom? African queen? History is still toying with the poor lady's reputation ...

The narrative of Cleopatra displays the art of balancing being a woman in power while also managing public perception. Laurie ...

Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean. With Caesar already notorious for his sexual energy, the two became lovers almost immediately. The following ...

In fact, African Queens offers nothing ... A large chunk of the Egyptian reaction towards Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra is unquestionably racist in nature, but it does not exist in isolation ...

The Roman historian Dio Cassius reported that Cleopatra's body was embalmed as Antony's had been, and Plutarch noted that on the orders of Octavian, the last queen of Egypt was buried beside her ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and ...

If you’re not going to be the best, you might as well be the worst, and Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra, a docudrama depicting the life and death of the Egyptian monarch, has earned the coveted ...

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 ...