These marble busts, which date back to the mid-first century BC, also depict Cleopatra as having full lips, a short mouth, and wide open eyes, generally in keeping with depictions of other Ptolemaic ...

Cleopatra’s Needle in London is seen from the Thames. Credit: Ktulucommonswiki. CC BY SA 3.0 “Cleopatra’s Needle” evokes the romanticism of the famous Egyptian queen. However, like some click-bate ...

Egypts legendary city Alexandria has had an unparalleled history from its creation by Alexander the Great until its collapse during the reign of Cleopatra when it fell to the hands of the Romans ...

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The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E.

Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic ...

Alexandria is a city in northern Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the second largest city in Egypt and is ...

though Antony was too much of an adventurer and Cleopatra had her own Egyptian dynastic designs that came to grief. Strabo called the city a necropolis, where the illustrious and the less so came to ...

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