A single event can reshape a world - or shatter it forever. Fifteen years ago, Caesar escaped assassination, and went on to be crowned Emperor of Rome. His son by Cleopatra, Caesarion, carries the ...

Hussein Bassir continues his series on the queens of the Ptolemaic period in Egypt, this week with Cleopatra VII, the most famous of them all Some of the important queens of the Ptolemaic Period, ...

The spirit of Alexander: Europe and Egypt -- In the blood: the Ptolemies and their Cleopatras -- The goddess comes forth: Cleopatra's early life -- A veiled proposal: Cleopatra meets Caesar -- The ...

Although Cleopatra is by no means British author Saara El-Arifi’s debut novel (she has written several fantasy fiction books prior to this), it will probably garner more attention than her previous ...

Among the finds: 16-foot-tall statues of a Ptolemaic king and queen, dated between 332 and 30 B.C., that once stood outside the Temple of Amon at Heracleion, where Cleopatra was crowned queen; coins, ...

A bronze coin in the Alexandria Museum depicts Cleopatra in masterful profile. The most important woman in ancient history, she took the two greatest Romans of her day – Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ...