However, these are not the reasons why the film entered the public lexicon. Rather, it's because Cleopatra was simultaneously ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Cleopatra identified herself with the popular ... This spiritual aspect continued into the Byzantine era, when Christian pilgrims may have offered up their valuables in thanks for cures.

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 ...

Scientists recently determined that a skull once believed to belong to Cleopatra’s half-sister ... also swept up in political conflicts of the era, but the recent findings confirmed that ...

Julius Cesar and Cleopatra in the Horrible Histories TV series After the stuff about hiding in carpets, bathing in milk and being bitten by snakes (more on some of that later), the most famous ...

Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan), now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra VII (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer ...

This coin is internationally famous as a rare realistic image of Cleopatra, one of the world's most powerful women. Famed for her intelligence, charisma and political skills, Cleopatra VII ruled ...