Antony and Cleopatra fled back to Alexandria but, within a year, the city was besieged by Roman soldiers. Rather than be captured and taken to Rome as prisoners, the two lovers committed suicide.

Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before the birth of Christ. She lost her kingdom once; regained it; nearly lost it again; amassed an empire; lost it all.

A MYSTERIOUS tunnel discovered beneath an Egyptian temple may lead to the long-lost tomb of Cleopatra.The 4,800ft passage ... effectively ending the 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian Empire.

The case for the total liberation of Ukraine, a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, how Tom Hanks became Tom Hanks, and a night at the Vatican. Plus Cleopatra’s daughter, the limits of assisted suicide ...

Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.