Visual art tells us as much ... These include mine on the importance of recognising Cleopatra’s Egyptian-ness. Obsessing over how a powerful woman looked is ironically reductionist and ...

You’re Egyptian," Gharavi wrote. "Why shouldn’t Cleopatra be a melanated sister ... I would like to draw a direct line from her to the women in Egypt who rose up in the Arab uprisings ...

It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass told Live Science. He noted that during the queen's time, pharaohs were portrayed in Egyptian art ...

Cleopatra VII reigned from roughly 51-30 B.C. and was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt for nearly ... skull using old photographs and drawings and claimed they identified ...

The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from ...

Film and art history is never part of the ... A large chunk of the Egyptian reaction towards Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra is unquestionably racist in nature, but it does not exist in isolation ...

It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman," Hawass told Live Science in an email. During the Ptolemaic dynasty, pharaohs were ...

With Egypt in the hands of Caesar, Cleopatra took back the throne as her ... and exotic essences,” writes art historian Diana E. E. Kleiner. The pharaoh meant to impress, and it worked.

The moment has been immortalized in art and literature ... to believe Cleopatra’s tomb might be located in the Temple of Osiris in the ruined city of Taposiris Magna, on Egypt’s northern ...