Through the Pax Romana, they believed that they were bringing the light of civilization to the darkest corners of Europe and Asia ... Queen Cleopatra had her eyes on the Roman prize – all ...

In Asia, there were the Seleucids; in Egypt, the Ptolemies. The first Cleopatra was a Seleucid princess who married into the ...

Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic ...

A new study settled a century-long debate over whether an ancient skull found at an elaborate tomb in Ephesos, Turkey, was Cleopatra’s sister. Photo from Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...