No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David Tresilian Everyone will be familiar with the story of Cleopatra ...

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ... the winter of 48 BC in Egypt. There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would ...

Her fascination with -- and admiration for -- Cleopatra is intense. The last queen of Ancient Egypt, she told me, "spoke nine languages, she was a philosopher, she was a poet, she was a politician ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Cleopatra was the last pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. After her rule, Egypt became part of the Roman Empire. Egypt is now governed by a president. Islam is the main religion and Arabic is the main ...

A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille ... and revulsion by the Roman elite, the race of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen is not what seems to preoccupy the ...