Cairo — As soon as Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming "docudrama" about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, drama started bubbling up online. The preview quickly drew criticism.

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched ...

“Queen Cleopatra,” Netflix’s four-part documentary on the most famous Queen of Egypt, has been very poorly reviewed. On Rotten Tomatoes it currently has a tomatometer score of 10%, which ...

Queen Cleopatra is the second in Jada Pinkett Smith’s African Queens series of drama-docuseries hybrids; this time the focus is on one of the most famous African queens of them all, Egypt’s ...

Few women have come into their looks as late as did Cleopatra VII, the first-century B.C. queen of Egypt. In accounts of the ancients she is no stunner. Only several hundred years after her death ...

By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the ...

Government-owned Egyptian broadcaster, Al Wathaeqya, is even set to produce its own documentary about Cleopatra to rival the Netflix series. “Her ethnicity is not the focus of Queen Cleopatra ...