"Until now, everyone has had pretty much the same fix on Cleopatra: passion's plaything ... whose bared bosom made an asp gasp when she died for love. Inevitably, the best-known incarnation ...

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She had a child with a married man, three more with another. She died at 39. Catastrophe reliably cements a reputation, and Cleopatra's end was sudden and sensational. In one of the busiest ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

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which included Cleopatra — before the Roman Empire took over. When Alexander the Great died in what is now Iraq, Ptolemy moved Alexander's body more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers ...

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It was Cleopatra’s father, Ptolemy XII, who had effectively opened the door to the Romans. When Ptolemy XI was killed in 80 BC, his only male heirs were Ptolemy XII and his younger brother – the ...

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