A French woman, Pauline Fourès earned the nickname "Napoleon's Cleopatra" during the French military expedition to Egypt.

Only living into her mid-20s, Ankhesenamun became the Queen of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty when she married King Tut.

Beneath an ancient Egyptian temple, archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious tunnel that could hold the key to one of ...

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

(Egypt's last pharaoh was the 'love child ... a decidedly Roman viewpoint to his work on the queen. Despite our lack of understanding of Cleopatra’s life, she remains relevant today.

it was as much a political move as a romantic one — she wanted to be Pharaoh of Egypt, not just a Ptolemaic queen. Coins with her face on them, paintings and sculptures of Cleopatra portray a ...

A visitor views the busts of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (ruled 51-30 BC), the last Ptolemaic queen of Egypt ... with the Nemes headdress,” a striped head cloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt.

They were looked upon by Cleopatra and Queen Victoria 19 centuries ... New York’s was the last obelisk to be taken out of Egypt. Its status as a major tourist attraction faded over time, and ...

The first-century B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the seventh, and last, in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to ...

The location of the Queen of the Nile’s tomb has ... there is “no evidence at all” to indicate that Cleopatra, ancient Egypt’s last pharaoh, is buried there. “I believe now that ...

One in ten adults claim they have never heard of the Pyramids of Giza – while 21% are unsure whether Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, really existed, according to a study. Other knowledge ...