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 ...

There she had at least one son, Ptolemaios, who followed his father onto the throne, but came to a nasty end under the Roman Emperor Caligula in 40 A.D. Cleopatra Selene’s own death ...

However, Cleopatra's father and grandfather were unlike their predecessors, according to Islam Issa, a professor of literature and history and the only Egyptian who appears in the show.

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.

The ancient writer Strabo (63 B.C. to A.D. 24), who lived in Alexandria, wrote that Ptolemy XII, the father of Cleopatra, had children through multiple mothers.

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.

Netflix’s four-part documentary, Queen Cleopatra, has proved deeply controversial, having received a shockingly low rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 2% audience score and 10% from critics ...

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, ...