As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning ... Like his future wife, Juba II had been raised in Rome following his father’s defeat (in this case, by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C.E.).

She traced her obsession with Cleopatra to an argument she'd had with her father in 1990, when she was 24 years old. She wandered into his library one day looking for a copy of Shakespeare's ...