the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ...

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 ...

It was thought that these pictures would help protect the resident ... The Eye of Horus became one of the most important symbols in Ancient Egypt. Cleopatra wasn't actually Egyptian.

A significant archaeological find has been made in the ancient Egyptian city of Taposiris Magna, which could finally see the discovery of Cleopatra VII’s long-lost tomb. A tunnel, partially ...

VIENNA –– For nearly a century, archaeologists and historians believed a well-preserved skull discovered in an ancient Turkish tomb belonged to an Egyptian ... sister of Cleopatra VII who ...

Conjuring up images of Ancient Egypt typically involves Hollywood films — Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra or Arnold Vosloo as high priest Imhotep in “The Mummy” — but the ancient ...

So his story is just that—a story. He claims that while under guard in her tomb, tending to the body of Antony following the surrender of Egyptian forces to the Roman general Octavian, Cleopatra chose ...

A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra ... titular Egyptian monarch. An exotic enigma treated with a mix of fascination and revulsion by the Roman elite, the race of Ancient Egypt ...