Ancient statue discovered at Egyptian temple may be rare Roman bust of Cleopatra
Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and ...
PBS3mon
Relief sculpture of Cleopatra at the Temple of Hathor, Dandara, Egypt
Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ... next 20 years. Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest ...
Greek Reporter1d
When Cleopatra and Marc Antony Celebrated Love on Ancient Greece’s ‘Mykonos’
Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Rehabilitating Cleopatra
The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century ... A first-century A.D. Roman would falsely assert that "ancient writers repeatedly speak of Cleopatra's insatiable libido." ...
National Geographic news2y
The search for Cleopatra
There is an unrevealing 20-foot-tall relief on a temple at Dendera, and museums display a few marble busts, most of which may not even be of Cleopatra. Ancient ... the last queen of Egypt was ...
CNN15y
Mysterious Cleopatra has 21st-century defender
Her fascination with -- and admiration for -- Cleopatra is intense. The last queen of Ancient Egypt, she told me ... peculiar to the portraits and statues of Hercules"? Hawass hasn't had much ...
BBC5y
Nine cult Ancient Egyptian figures that pop up everywhere
Which became quite a thing for the Ancient ... Egypt for 100 years after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. Cleopatra was well-educated, intelligent and ambitious, but when she became queen ...