By the 1990s, researchers proposed that the unusual burial might have belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister, who some believed ...

After Antony flamed out, even bungling his suicide and evidently dying in her arms, the unromantic Cleopatra made a futile pass at the new Caesar Augustus, Octavian, in a last, desperate effort to ...

The Roman historian Dio Cassius reported that Cleopatra's body was embalmed as Antony's had been, and Plutarch noted that on the orders of Octavian, the last queen of Egypt was buried beside her ...

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 ...

They linked the tomb’s architecture to ancient Egypt and put forward a new theory: This could be the skull of Cleopatra VII’s half-sister, Arsinoë IV, who was “murdered in Ephesos around 41 ...

In an interview to Live Science, Zahi Hawass, the former minister of tourism and antiquities of Egypt who excavated the site in the past, stated that the statue was "not Cleopatra at all".

Afterwards, Egypt fell under Roman domination. The identity of Cleopatra's mother is not known, and historians say it is possible that she, or any other female ancestor, was an indigenous Egyptian ...

"You've got to remember that her family had actually lived in Egypt for 300 years by the time she came to power." In 2009, a BBC documentary reconstructed the face of Cleopatra's sister Arsinoe ...