These Egyptian Pharaohs were not to be messed with. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down the most ferocious, ...

She may be one of the most recognizable figures in history, but we have little idea what Cleopatra actually looked like. Only ...

Ptolemaic pharaohs constructed much of this complex, which served as a center of worship for the goddess Isis. Cleopatra identified herself with the popular deity, as did most of the dynasty’s ...

Queen Cleopatra. When her father, Ptolemy Xll, died, he willed her to be co-pharaoh of Egypt, along with her younger brother, Ptolemy XllI, whom she married, according to the Egyptian custom of ...

Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt. After her death, Rome took the reins. The Egyptian pharaoh whose charisma, intelligence and beauty made her one of the most celebrated rulers of the ...

The most famous pharaohs are perhaps Ramesses II and Tutankhamen. But others — including Cleopatra, Hatshepsut and Ptolemy I Soter — accomplished great things. Hatshepsut was a woman who ...

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 ...

The Ptolemaic dynasty ended with the death of Cleopatra, during the Roman conquest in 30BC which was 600 years ago. Child: But don’t you miss all that stuff like the pharaohs and the huge ...

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic ...

The temple's dedication to Osiris and Isis adds weight to Martinez's hypothesis, given Cleopatra's identification with the goddess. Established between 280 and 270 BCE by Pharaoh Ptolemy II ...

For ten generations her family, the Ptolemies, had styled themselves pharaohs. They were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra about as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor. She and her 10-year ...