For centuries, the death of Cleopatra has been wrapped in mystery, drama, and legend. Most people know the famous version of ...

A growing number of historians favor a different explanation for her death.

When Edmonia Lewis presented her five-foot, two-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the crowd that swarmed around it was the largest at the ...

Generally, when people refer to 'Cleopatra,' they are referring to Cleopatra VII, the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt. Nightshift first cited the execution of her sister , Arsinoe ...

"Cleopatra's Final Secret" reveals exciting discoveries in the search for the burial grounds of ancient Egypt's last ruler. LOS ANGELES -- She lived as the last ruler of ancient Egypt, but little is ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...

All you’ll see at the Salem museum is a cardboard cut-out. But it invokes a marble wonder that moldered in a saloon and a ...

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Egypt’s ruler was more than the sum of the seductions that loom so large in history—and in Hollywood Stacy Schiff The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile ...