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 ...

However, other archaeologists do not believe the bust depicts Cleopatra VII, the statement said, noting that the statue may represent a princess or another royal woman. Zahi Hawass, a former ...

“I looked at the bust carefully,” the famed former antiquities minister told Live Science. “It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman.” Near a system of tunnels that runs from Lake Mariout ...

Archaeologists uncovered several artifacts along with the statue, including 337 coins which bear the image of Cleopatra VII, a limestone bust of a king adorned with the Nemes headdress ...

Experts debate whether this bust depicts Cleopatra. Courtesy of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists searching for Cleopatra’s tomb have discovered a trove of coins ...

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 ...

The figure of a woman in question was found alongside a limestone bust of a king wearing a “Nemis”, a kind of striped headcloth worn by the pharaohs. Researchers also found some 350 coins, many ...