The Roman poet Propertius called Cleopatra “the whore queen.” Cassius Dio referred to her as a “woman of insatiable sexuality and insatiable avarice.” They, and other Roman men like them, were largely ...

58 B.C.: Cleopatra VII's father, Ptolemy XII, is exiled and a woman named Cleopatra Tryphaena became ruler of Egypt, dying not long afterward. 55 B.C.: Ptolemy XII is put back on the throne with ...

Guests who can fork over at least £11,950, about $15,365, can spend a day tracing the work of archaeologist Kathleen Martinez on her hunt for Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s long-lost tomb.

One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be the last of her dynasty. But while she's often thought to be a great beauty who seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ...

Unearthed at an Egyptian temple, the figure is likely of Egypt's King Ptolemy IV—suggesting a link to Cleopatra's tomb, dig leaders say.

The first-century B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the seventh, and last, in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to ...

In the eyes of Plutarch and Shakespeare alike, Cleopatra’s sole power was seduction. ... Posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from Herculaneum, Italy, ca. first century.

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, . . Basic, $27.50 ... a memorable journey through the rich and contradictory sources of our knowledge about her. 8 pages of illus., 3 maps. ...

It’s 70 feet tall, 220 tons and the city’s oldest artifact — but many New Yorkers don’t know it exists. Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old obelisk from Ancient Egypt, survived a voyage ...

The ancient city, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Alexandria at the edge of Egypt’s Lake Mariout, contains a temple and tower thought by Martinez to contain Cleopatra’s tomb. The excavation ...