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.

Her Roman lover, played by Richard Burton, had bulging eyes, thick neck and a hook nose. The tiny coin was studied by experts at Newcastle University. The size of a modern 5p piece (18mm or 0.7in), ...

Cleopatra’s image appears on the front of the coin, which signals her greater importance. (CC-0 Public Domain Designation/Art Institute of Chicago) Among the most promising potential leads as to what ...

The Institut du monde arabe (Arab World Institute) in Paris aims to change that with “The Mystery of Cleopatra”, a new ...

CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen, by Jane Draycott. ... Draycott gathers evidence from whatever sources she can find — frescoes, mosaics, jewelry, marble busts, coins ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass told ... The dig unearthed about 350 coins, many showing an image of Cleopatra VII. Most read in ...

There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would set Roman nerves on edge for most of the next 20 years. Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean.

Researchers also found some 350 coins, many showing an image of Cleopatra VII, a pottery set, oil lamps, limestone pots for food and cosmetic preservation, several bronze statues, and an amulet ...

The deposit found beneath this structure also included oil lamps, a scarab amulet that reads “The justice of Ra has arisen,” and a trove of 337 coins—many featuring Cleopatra’s silhouette.