The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleopatra (centre) is played by a black actress, Adele James, in the new Netflix docudrama series. Image courtesy Netflix During ...
It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to ...
2. Cleopatra VII (L) and her son Caesarion (R) depicted on the Temple of Hathor (1st century BCE) Dendera, Egypt; sandstone, sunk relief; photo by Olaf Rausch courtesy Wikimedia Commons) From a ...
Dr. Nally is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Dr. Gilbert is an assistant professor of classics at Mississippi State University. The new Netflix ...
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Cleopatra’s tomb: Hidden bust in temple could bring archaeologists closer to queen’s tomb
A recent archaeological discovery at Egypt’s Taposiris Magna temple could bring researchers one step closer to uncovering the long-lost tomb of Cleopatra VII. The finding, a small sculpted bust that ...
It does, of course, pertain to the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whose name still rings through history thanks to extremely enthusiastic reports of her beauty, her interactions with the Roman Empire, and ...
The tendency to view history “through the lens of our own era” has become more pronounced in recent years. To measure this unfortunate tilt, one could do worse than compare Stacy Schiff’s “Cleopatra: ...
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned 400 years earlier, were dangerous. We do not know whether Cleopatra ...
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