Lest her subjects resent her Roman overtures, Cleopatra embraced Egypt's traditions. She is said to have been the first Ptolemaic pharaoh to bother to learn the Egyptian language. While it was ...
Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...
The temple's dedication to Osiris and Isis adds weight to Martinez's hypothesis, given Cleopatra's identification with the ...
Queen Cleopatra. When her father, Ptolemy Xll, died, he willed her to be co-pharaoh of Egypt, along with her younger brother, Ptolemy XllI, whom she married, according to the Egyptian custom of ...
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan), now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra VII (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer ...