Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...
It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman," Hawass tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus. As Jarus explains, pharaohs were portrayed in Egyptian art styles during the Ptolemaic dynasty, not Roman.
A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...