Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

The Roman historian Dio Cassius reported that Cleopatra's body was embalmed ... Using Strabo's ancient descriptions of Egypt, Martinez sketched a map of candidate burial sites, zeroing in on ...

In the middle of the civil war that would bring him to power, Julius Caesar spent the winter of 48 BC in Egypt. There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would set Roman nerves on edge for most of the ...

finally it was to Cleopatra's credit that she had defied the expectations of her sex. With her death the Roman civil wars came to an end. So too did the Ptolemaic dynasty. In 30 B.C. Egypt became ...

A visitor views the busts of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (ruled 51-30 BC), the last Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, and the Roman general Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), displayed alongside a statue ...

Hawass observed it seems to be from the Roman period in Egypt, which began in 30 BC, much after Cleopatra’s reign. Excavations of the submerged sections of Taposiris Magna, conducted underwater ...