No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

Serpent of the Nile? Learned ruler? Sex Kitten? Ambitious mom? African queen? History is still toying with the poor lady's reputation ...

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 ...

Julius Cesar and Cleopatra in ... 49 BCE he quite fancied ruling without his sister/wife. He conspired against her, so Cleo fled to Syria, raised an enemy and soon Egypt had descended into civil ...

Cleopatra VII (lived from 69 to 30 B.C.) was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which started when Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals, started ruling ancient Egypt in 305 ...

The narrative of Cleopatra displays the art of balancing being a woman in power while also managing public perception. Laurie ...

In the middle of the civil war that would bring him to power, Julius Caesar spent the winter of 48 BC in Egypt. There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would set Roman nerves on edge for most of the ...

ABUSIR, Egypt (CNN)-- Today, I met Cleopatra's lawyer. Well, not her lawyer but someone who is determined to defend the legendary queen against centuries of bad publicity. Kathleen Martinez is a ...

The four episodes present the awfully familiar linear narrative of Cleopatra’s rise and fall: from her ascendance to Egypt’s throne in 51 BCE, through to her famed affair with Julius Caesar ...

In Gadot's view, Cleopatra — the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt and a descendant of Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who served under Alexander the Great — was "so ahead of her time." ...

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic ... saviour”), began a new ruling triad in 116 BCE. Following the death of Cleopatra II, Cleopatra III took the ...