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

To a Roman, Cleopatra was thrice suspect, once for hailing from a culture known—as Cicero had it—for its "fribbling, fawning ways," again for her Alexandrian address, lastly for her staggering ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

During the Ptolemaic dynasty, pharaohs were portrayed with Egyptian, not Roman, art styles. The Roman period in Egypt began in 30 B.C. after Cleopatra's death. Her tomb has never been found .

That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. This definitive portrait restores the Egyptian queen to her rightful historical status as a ...

Detail of the word written by Cleopatra. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Others believe it was a high-ranking official who penned it. Either way, the papyrus—catalogued as P.25239—is ...

Martinez told PBS she believes that Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt before the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, is buried in the temple complex. Previously, other theories pointed to Alexandria as the ...

Cleopatra started producing a Roman coin while she was living with her new lover Marc Antony. This Roman Denarius is very unique for bearing portraits on both sides of it.

Cleopatra’s ‘situationship’ with Caesar was complex. Sculpture by William Wetmore Story, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. While there, Caesar seems to have done nothing to dispel the rumours ...

But not everyone was convinced. “I looked at the bust carefully. It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass told Live Science.. He noted that ...

Researchers also found some 350 coins, many showing an image of Cleopatra VII, a pottery set, oil lamps, limestone pots for food and cosmetic preservation, several bronze statues, and an amulet ...