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

A Roman general and an Egyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra flaunted their scandalous love affair while challenging the power of Rome. This 1883 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema shows Mark ...

Daisy Dunn - Author, The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World In the first century B.C.E., Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra competed for Mark Antony's heart. Illustration by ...

Historians in Egypt believe they could be close to uncovering the long-lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Archaeologists believe they have identified the hidden location of the crypt in which ...

But while she's often thought to be a great beauty who seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, historians aren't sure what Cleopatra looked like. Was she beautiful? Debatable. Was she charming?

“Antony and Cleopatra,” though ... borrowed a few lively lines from “The Taming of the Shrew,” Finley’s Mark Antony is without heat. But he stews magnificently, growing old ungracefully ...

Stationed in the east, Mark Antony summons Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt to demand submission, but instead, Antony is subdued by Cleopatra’s beauty, wit and charm. Heart tied to Cleopatra ...