Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.
Cobras or vipers would have been too large to get unseen into the queen’s palace. Unlikely Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite Ancient Egyptians rightly believed that cobras were good mothers ...
Several years earlier, she’d battled against Cleopatra and Julius Caesar during ... Radiocarbon dating did reveal that the skull’s owner had died between 205 B.C.E. and 36 B.C.E., the same ...
The first one was Cleopatra’s little brother Ptolemy XIII. After Cleo’s dad died, she was put in charge, but at the time women weren’t allowed to rule without a male co-ruler, so the easiest ...
A new study settled a century-long debate over whether an ancient skull found at an elaborate tomb in Ephesos, Turkey, was Cleopatra’s sister. Photo from Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna ...
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 ...