A MARBLE bust believed to have the face of legendary Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII carved into it has been discovered in a recent excavation. The white marble statue, which depicts a woman wearing a… ...

She was one of the most famous rulers of Ancient Egypt and other territories across the Middle East, in addition to being one of the last in a series of the Ptolemies. Her name: Queen Cleopatra ...

Zahi Hawass has even taken a look and offered his verdict. “I looked at the bust carefully,” the famed former antiquities minister told Live Science. “It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman.” ...

Recent excavations at Taposiris Magna near Alexandria have uncovered a marble bust of a woman believed to be the 'true face' of Cleopatra.

Cleopatra VII (lived from 69 to 30 B.C.) was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which started when Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals, started ruling ancient Egypt in 305 ...

"I looked at the bust carefully. It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman," Hawass tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus. As Jarus explains, pharaohs were portrayed in Egyptian art styles during the ...

But not everyone was convinced. “I looked at the bust carefully. It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass told Live Science.. He noted that ...

A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian city may depict Cleopatra VII, the Egyptian queen who romanced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, according to the ...

Ancient statue discovered at Egyptian temple may be rare Roman bust of Cleopatra. Not everyone is convinced statue belongs to legendary queen . Vishwam Sankaran. Tuesday 10 December 2024 08:58 GMT.

Cleopatra VII (lived from 69 to 30 B.C.) was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which started when Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals, started ruling ancient Egypt in 305 ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...