At the crux of the debate among historians has been whether Cleopatra, who hailed from a long line of Macedonian Greeks, would have darker skin because of her African ancestry. Those who support ...

She is also Black. Cleopatra, countered Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry, was white, with “Hellenistic characteristics,” an assertion that her Greek Macedonian ancestry and coin portraits would ...

"Queen Cleopatra" producers, however, have insisted that there is evidence to suggest that she could have had Black ancestry. Nally and Gilbert claimed that both of these arguments miss the point ...

Cleopatra may indeed have had mixed heritage ... And in the fuller context, I say that the enigmatic natures of her ancestry and legacy – both of which I have detailed in my history of ...

Netflix’s casting was informed by the views of Shelley Haley, a renowned classicist and Cleopatra expert, who claims that, although evidence of her ancestry and physical attributes are ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, 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 ...