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 ...

Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series. “Queen Cleopatra,” which is released May 10, ...

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 ...

Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt, strategically allied with Roman leaders to protect her kingdom. Despite her intelligence ...

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Cleopatra ruled Egypt in a world dominated by Roman power, political betrayal, and brutal ambition. Her alliances with Julius ...