Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was born in 69 BC into the Ptolemaic dynasty, founded by Ptolemy I, a Macedonian Greek, a part of the army of Alexander the Great, who had conquered Egypt and founded ...

A mystery dating back nearly a century about a skull believed to belong to Cleopatra's murdered half-sister has been solved using modern DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating.

For decades, scholars have believed that a skeleton discovered by archaeologists in the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesos ...

which they hypothesized could belong to the Queen of Egypt’s half-sister, Arsinoë IV, who was “murdered in Ephesos around 41 (B.C.) at the instigation of Mark Antony, Cleopatra’s lover ...

The mysterious ancient skull, found in the 1920s, sparked a wave of theories then “sank into oblivion” — until recently.

Archaeologist Kathleen Martinez believes a marble statue discovered at a temple site portrays the face of Cleopatra. (all images courtesy Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Success!

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 ...

born Cleopatra VII Philopator, was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Although she governed Egypt, she descended from a Greek family, and Greek remained her mother tongue.

The real star of Cleopatra, however, is Mankiewicz, who brought order out of what had been production chaos. As Caesar observes to Cleopatra, early on: ‘You have a way of mixing politics and ...