Queen Cleopatra was survived by her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, who would go on to rule a kingdom of her own in North Africa.

The two attempts on her life, carried out by 19-year-old John Francis, happened within a span of 24 hours, historical records ...

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Cleopatra was queen of Egypt, but she was a Macedonian ... she was a prominent player in both the death of the Roman Republic and the fall of the Egyptian Pharaohs. While she met a tragic end ...

She was the sister of Queen Cleopatra VII and the kings Ptolemy XIII ... which corresponds well with the traditionally accepted date of death of Arsinoë IV (41 BCE). The geneticists also found ...

meaning they continued to circulate after the queen’s death. Marín noted that the image minted on the coins is an “official” portrait of Cleopatra. “This is the most seen image of any ...

The film covers the 18 turbulent years leading to the foundation of the Roman Empire, from Cleopatra’s first meeting with Julius Caesar until her death in ... as the child-queen of the film ...

Having a foreign queen on a Roman coin was unheard of ... The events around Cleopatra’s death and what happened to her body are unknown It is believed that Cleopatra and Marc Antony took ...