📜 Cleopatra: Death by Snake - Ah, the most famous part of Cleopatra's story. After riding high with Mark Antony, the two rulers decided to make a huge gamble to cut Octavian out of the picture ...
Other archaeologists have suggested the bust belongs to a princess who lived after Cleopatra's death in 30 BC. Cleopatra VII, whose reign lasted from 51 to 30 BC, is the Egyptian queen who ...
A small statue of a woman wearing a royal crown may depict Cleopatra VII, an archaeologist claims. Other archaeologists think ...
Cleopatra VII Philopator was an astute ruler who used her charms to win over the most powerful men in the ancient world as ...
She thinks that Cleopatra’s death was a ceremonial act - part of a ritual apotheosis, or the shedding of her mortal body to ascend to the states of a goddess. If that were true, she would have ...
Her 3,000-pound masterwork, The Death of Cleopatra, commemorated another powerful woman who broke with convention…and then the sculpture disappeared. On this return episode of Sidedoor, we find them ...
The Roman period in Egypt began in 30 B.C. after Cleopatra's death. Her tomb has never been found. Taposiris Magna was a city founded around 280 B.C. near the Mediterranean Sea; it had a number of ...