The Roman period in Egypt began in 30 B.C.E. after Cleopatra's death. Even the Egypt’s Ministry ... currency like this helped ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving ... center of the Mediterranean for a few centuries after Cleopatra's death. Then it began to dematerialize. With it went Egypt's ...

but it was a very original and very striking one . . . [Cleopatra] is seated in a chair; the poison of the asp has done its work and the Queen is dead. The effects of death are represented with ...

This portrayal hasn't been free of controversy, though - the decision to cast a black actress (Casualty's Adele James) as Cleopatra caused uproar in Egypt, where academics claim their queen was of ...

While speaking with Vogue Hong Kong about her new Netflix film Heart of Stone for the magazine's July issue, Gadot, 38, noted that she grew up understanding the ancient queen Cleopatra as "a ...

Cleopatra became queen following the death of her father in 51 BCE. However, the customs of ancient Egypt meant that she needed a male co-ruler and so Cleopatra married her younger brother ...

Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean. With Caesar already notorious for his sexual energy, the two became lovers almost immediately. The following ...