stressing that "the rejection of the film before its screening was in defense of the history of Queen Cleopatra… and has nothing to do with racism." An Egyptian lawyer filed a formal complaint ...

Queen Cleopatra was survived by her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, who would go on to rule a kingdom of her own in North Africa.

Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ director defended the series in a Friday essay following allegations of ‘blackwashing’ and falsifying ancient Egyptian history. April 21, 2023 Cleopatra was ...

“Statues of Queen Cleopatra confirm that ... to some Afrocentrists, ancient Egypt was the Black African civilization that birthed not only African history and culture, but also world ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving ... It is not difficult to understand why Caesar became history, Cleopatra a legend. Her story differs from most women's stories in ...

Cleopatra, however, did learn Egyptian, which according to legend ... it’s as a selfless warrior queen. There’s good history buried within the documentary that walks hand-in-hand with the ...

“Queen Cleopatra,” Netflix’s four-part documentary ... ethnicities weren’t really recorded in early Egyptian history. In Alexandria especially, there was no normative race: Genetic makeup ...

After a battle in 30 B.C., the Egyptian queen realized that ... don’t know about Cleopatra Cleopatra's death has been dramatized many times throughout history—most notably in Shakespeare's ...

The trailer was met with immediate accusations of falsifying history. Social media ... In both of these cases, reclaiming Cleopatra as an Egyptian queen was at the forefront of my mind.

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

The tendency to view history “through the ... As its subtitle suggests, Ms. Prose’s ”Cleopatra” is less straight biography than an appraisal of the queen’s historical reception.