"Queen Cleopatra" stars Adele James — a light brown-skinned British actress who has a white mother and a Black father — as the famous monarch. "Why have we long depicted Cleopatra as white?" ...

Coins found bearing her image tell conflicting stories of what Cleopatra might have looked like. When her father died in 51 B.C. Cleopatra, then 18, was plunged into a controversy over which of ...

After six successors, the descent reached Cleopatra’s father, meaning that Cleopatra “was no more than eight generations away from being pure Macedonian Greek,” Mr. Roller said in an article published ...

Cleopatra’s father, Ptolemy XII, was undoubtedly of Macedonian-Greek descent, but her mother’s identity remains a mystery. Islam Issa, a professor of literature and history who appears in the ...

So what exactly do we know? Cleopatra’s father, Ptolemy XII, was a member of the family that conquered Egypt over 200 years earlier. He was routinely referred to as an illegitimate child.

Cleopatra's father had thrown in his lot with Pompey the Great. Good fortune seemed eternally to shine on that brilliant Roman general, at least until Julius Caesar dealt him a crushing defeat in ...

She was the 7th Cleopatra Known simply as Cleopatra (Greek: “Famous in Her Father,” 51 – August 12, 30 B.C.), the last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt was actually named Cleopatra VII Thea ...

In some ways, Cleopatra’s career mirrors her husband’s. She was born in Alexandria around 40 B.C. Antony was a largely absent father, but when his daughter was about 6, he made the extravagant ...

(To others, he was not so merciful, hunting down and killing the son Cleopatra had with Julius Caesar, Caesarion, even though Caesar had been Octavian’s adoptive father.) We know only that ...

Cleopatra's father had thrown in his lot with Pompey the Great. Good fortune seemed eternally to shine on that brilliant Roman general, at least until Julius Caesar dealt him a crushing defeat in ...