Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

Lead archaeologist Kathleen Martinez believes the tunnel could unlock the mystery of Cleopatra's final resting place.

Archaeologists were dumbfounded when they unearthed a small white marble statue under the suspected temple of Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The statue shows a female wearing a royal crown ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

In the middle of the civil war that would bring him to power, Julius Caesar spent the winter of 48 BC in Egypt. There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would set Roman nerves on edge for most of the ...

The four episodes present the awfully familiar linear narrative of Cleopatra’s rise and fall: from her ascendance to Egypt’s throne in 51 BCE, through to her famed affair with Julius Caesar ...

The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing ... a soil radiation scientist at Alexandria University in Egypt and one of the study’s co-authors.

Under the pharaohs ... Toby Wilkinson’s The Last Dynasty: Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt is published ...

But this, in fact, enraged Caesar who set off for Egypt himself. Caesar demanded an explanation from Ptolemy, and Cleopatra and ordered them both to appear before him. This was tricky for Cleo as ...

Cleopatra VII was born in Egypt, but she was descended from a lineage ... it was inside the limits of ancient Alexandria and not yet under the control of the Romans during those last days before ...

In 48 B.C., Julius Caesar (Sir Rex Harrison) pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan), now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra VII ...