The Egyptian queen Cleopatra is widely believed to have used beer taxes to fund her wars with Rome (she claimed the taxes were to combat “drunkenness”). Dutch leaders in 16th century Holland ...
Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme/Wikipedia. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra is widely believed to have used beer taxes to fund her wars with Rome (she claimed the taxes were to combat “drunkenness”).
In 1924 when the world came face-to-face with the likeness of the Ancient Egyptian queen for the first time, it sparked a ...
Designers of the time, such as the French couturier Paul Poiret, incorporated Egyptian motifs ... with the queen. Elizabeth Taylor’s portrayal of Cleopatra in 1963 further cemented this obsessio ...
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One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt ...
The Egyptian queen Cleopatra is widely believed to have used beer taxes to fund her wars with Rome (she claimed the taxes were to combat "drunkenness"). Dutch leaders in 16th century Holland used beer ...