Beyond the excitement of Angelina Jolie being cast to portray Cleopatra, famously known as the "Last Pharaoh of Egypt," anticipation builds around this timeless ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

Ancient Egypt had many impressive pharaohs, but which of them were especially fearsome warriors? Here are just some who ...

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"To me he looks like a young man with a delicate face… Looking at him, we see more of a young student than a politician full ...

With Semiramis are other temptresses: Helen of Troy and Cleopatra. According to Diodorus ... as a baby and found by the daughter of the pharaoh. Semiramis’s consultation of Amun and her attempt ...

Later, she rose to become the queen of Mauritania, Numidia, and Cyrene. Pharaoh Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Credit: Carole Raddato / Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Her name “Selene” derives ...

The latter fled to Egypt and called for help from the young pharaoh Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator and his sister Cleopatra VII. The Egyptians, however, preferred to assassinate Pompey and, when Caesar ...