Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before the birth of Christ. She lost her kingdom once; regained it; nearly lost it again; amassed an empire ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

While Cleopatra VII will likely always be the best-known female member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the other six who ruled before her can help us to understand more about ancient Egypt’s final queen.

The leading archaeologist in the excavation, Kathleen Martinez, has long believed that the Taposiris Magna could house the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen. Cleopatra VII was deeply ...

Cleopatra was a daughter of Egypt – part of the Macedonian-Greek-Ptolemaic Dynasty that had ruled since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Queen of Egypt, Cyrene and Cyprus, she was renowned ...

In ancient Egypt, Isis as one of the most renowned goddesses and was considered to be both ... The Queen of the Nile was actually the seventh Cleopatra in the Ptolemaic dynasty to have the name. Her ...

Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, become their closest friends as ...

In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin lies a fragile piece of papyrus that speaks not of turbulent romances ...

Despite the fact that she ruled over Egypt, Cleopatra was Greek. Cleopatra VII Philopater ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. After her ...