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 ...

But this, in fact, enraged Caesar who set off for Egypt himself. Caesar demanded an explanation from Ptolemy, and Cleopatra and ordered them both to appear before him. This was tricky for Cleo as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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".

Archaeologists were dumbfounded when they unearthed a small white marble statue under the suspected temple of Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The statue shows a female wearing a royal crown ...

"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 ...