Like Cleopatra, who was descended from the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter on her father’s side and unknown ancestors on her mother’s, Cleopatra Selene most likely did not identify 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novelist Michelle Moran had good success with “Cleopatra’s Daughter” (2009), in which the title character narrates a tumultuous quarter-century beginning in 30 B.C.

"What we do know is that Cleopatra's father was Greek, and she would have considered herself to be Greek — although she did portray herself to be Egyptian, when it suited her politically ...

"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?" ...

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.

Kathleen Martinez, a Dominican lawyer, diplomat, and archaeologist, is on the verge of finding Cleopatra’s tomb. Transitioning from her law practice in 2005, she has dedicated her life to archaeology, ...