Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

The first Cleopatra, Syra (“the Syrian”), was the daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochus III; her marriage to Ptolemy V in 193 B.C. was orchestrated to promote harmony among the rival kingdoms.

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...

A French woman, Pauline Fourès earned the nickname "Napoleon's Cleopatra" during the French military expedition to Egypt.

Cleopatra III also kept a steady eye on Rome, since it was from there, rather than from the increasingly defunct Seleucid Kingdom, that the chief threats to Egypt came.

Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean. With Caesar already notorious for his sexual energy, the two became lovers almost immediately. Caesar’s Palace ...

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 ...

Let’s start with one of the last, but most famous, Egyptian queens: Cleopatra. ... Thutmose III, who ended up being the Napoleon of Egypt, enlarging its empire beyond anything it had ever seen.

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation ...