Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra. Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the ancient world. She was the last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Tancredi Scarpelli - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Cleopatra VII is one of those historical figures whose name sparks ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient hidden tunnel beneath a temple that they hope leads to the long-lost tomb of Queen Cleopatra. The massive tunnel was discovered by an ...

Mummies of noble birth have been dug up from all over Egypt, but some of the most notable figures in the region have yet to ...

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 biggest ...

The alabaster head of a Queen Cleopatra statue, left, a part of a mask believed to belong to Mark Anthony, and coins bearing Cleopatra's image are displayed at the temple of Taposiris Magna, which was ...

For centuries, the death of Cleopatra has been wrapped in mystery, drama, and legend. Most people know the famous version of the story. The last queen of Egypt reportedly allowed a deadly snake to ...

History’s most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp.

Egypt’s Supreme Council Of Antiquities (SCA) has added its voice to the row over the portrayal of Cleopatra as a Black woman in Netflix’s upcoming docudrama Queen Cleopatra. The casting of actress ...

Writing of the 1949 black comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” in which Alec Guinness played every member of an eccentric aristocratic family, A.N. Wilson remarked on how “an essentially sad story ...