Over time, Cleopatra has become an icon of beauty. But in the ancient world, the Egyptian queen was better known as a masterful leader.

Cleopatra became queen on the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 B.C. and ruled successively with her two brothers Ptolemy XIII (51- 47 B.C.) and Ptolemy XIV (47- 44 B.C.) and her son Ptolemy ...

Famous for her wiles, Cleopatra has been played by beauties like Theda Bara (above), Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh. But an Egyptologist's recreation shows the real Queen was ...

The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than a political tool. "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885 The struggle with her ...

Netflix's new Cleopatra doc raises questions about the life of the Egyptian queen. We unpack what the doc leaves out and why the last pharaoh was more than just her skin color.

And more than 2,000 years after she lived, Queen Cleopatra VII, who ruled the sprawling kingdom of Egypt for 22 years, is still a mesmerizing force. ... the REAL queen did not get by on looks: ...

Bowing to perhaps the most famous woman ever to have lived, the Field Museum will host the greatest exhibition on Cleopatra ever mounted, using hundreds of pieces of artwork and artifacts drawn fro… ...

Haley is the real breakout of Queen Cleopatra” for the way she animatedly recounts scenes from Cleopatra’s life with the vibrancy of a professional storyteller.

In filmmaking history, few productions top the excess of the 1963 version of “Cleopatra”: a then outrageous $44 million budget that forced 20th Century Fox to sell property to meet cost… ...

So, sorry treasure hunters, Cleopatra’s bejeweled eggs aren’t actually sitting in a desert somewhere, waiting to be dug up. Ironically though, there are a set of famous Easter eggs in history ...

Over time, Cleopatra has become an icon of beauty. But in the ancient world, the Egyptian queen was better known as a masterful leader.