Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history, but few people know that her daughter also became a remarkable and influential ruler. Cleopatra Selene II, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark ...

The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth ...

Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history, but the truth behind her story is far more complex than the legend. Far from just a seductress, she was a highly intelligent political strategist ...

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 before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleopatra (centre) is played by a black actress, Adele James, in the new Netflix docudrama series. Image courtesy Netflix During ...

It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to ...

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...

News that Israeli actress Gal Gadot will play Cleopatra has prompted Hollywood's latest "whitewashing" row -- and renewed a historical debate over the ancient Queen of Egypt's ancestry. Already a ...

Researchers have now unveiled a new composite image of Cleopatra as a mixed-race beauty, reports NPR.com. The new digitally compiled image more accurately fits the true appearance of the empress, and ...

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned 400 years earlier, were dangerous. We do not know whether Cleopatra ...