For centuries, depictions of Cleopatra have emphasised her beauty and romantic entanglements – much more so than her ...

Beneath an ancient Egyptian temple, archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious tunnel that could hold the key to one of history’s most elusive secrets. This remarkable discovery has raised new hopes ...

A Roman general and an Egyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra flaunted their scandalous love affair while challenging the power of Rome. This 1883 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema shows Mark ...

To a Roman, Cleopatra was thrice suspect, once for hailing from a culture known—as Cicero had it—for its "fribbling, fawning ways," again for her Alexandrian address, lastly for her staggering ...

Some extant coins show Cleopatra as a plain-looking woman, while others depict a mirror image of Antony, reflecting their makers’ opinions about the female ruler’s liaison with her Roman lover.

Metal detectorists in the east of England have discovered a cache of Roman silver coins that depict several emperors and even some of their wives.. The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is ...

The former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said, “I looked at the bust carefully. It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman.” While Hawas has argued there is a distinct style difference ...

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Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC). Right: A posthumous painted portrait of Cleopatra VII of ...

Among the findings reported by Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has been digging at the site since 2005 in search of Cleopatra VII’s tomb, were 337 ancient coins bearing the queen ...

Cleopatra started producing a Roman coin while she was living with her new lover Marc Antony. This Roman Denarius is very unique for bearing portraits on both sides of it.