Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

She was dangerous to have as a sister It wasn’t just brothers that Cleopatra had it in for. She also feared her sister Arsinoe was plotting against her and convinced Mark Antony to have her ...

Two of the world’s most powerful men fell for her—Julius Caesar and Roman general Mark Antony. “MARBLE PORTRAIT OF CLEOPATRA VII,” CA 50-30 B.C.; CHRISTOPH GERIGK, AT ALTES MUSEUM ...

who was “murdered in Ephesos around 41 (B.C.) at the instigation of Mark Antony, Cleopatra’s lover,” the Austrian Academy of Sciences explained. The theory was recently debunked after a team ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

Shakespeare never presented a stage director with more problems than he did in Antony and Cleopatra; thus any production of the play is cause for excitement. Coleridge thought it Shakespeare's ...

Roman General Mark Antony, disputing Octavian’s right to leadership, formed a romantic and political alliance with Cleopatra. However, he abandoned her and the twins she bore him to marry ...

and Cleopatra returns to Egypt. When Mark Antony (Richard Burton), Caesar's protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her ...

The film covered every detail of Cleopatra's tragic story, from her alliance with Caesar to her love affair with Mark Antony.

If Cleopatra had been less captivating, for whatever reason, Mark Antony would have had more time to attend to affairs of state in Rome. Had he done that he might have prevented Octavian (later to ...

She returned to Egypt after Caesar was assassinated and fell in love with Mark Antony. The latter was defeated by his rival Octavian in 31 BC. Cleopatra chose death by snake bite and Mark Antony ...