Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra. Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the ancient world. She was the last ...

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, and her family's shocking history is the key to her power. Trace her royal lineage back to Alexander the Great himself and uncover the web of ambition, palace intrigue, and ...

January happens to be the birth month of Cleopatra, who arguably tops the list of the most fascinating women in history. She was not the first queen or power figure in Egypt—there were Sobekneferu, ...

Cleopatra's servant (Keila Pereira) and Cleopatra (Melissanthi Mahut). (Image credit: BBC/BBC Studios/Marcell Piti) The 3,000-year-old empire of ancient Egypt faces disaster, as war, famine and a ...

But not the crowns of three kingdoms, as did the descendant of Alexander the Great’s beloved general, Ptolemy V. Instead Ms. Gadot plays the eponymous character, joins with Laeta Kalogridis in writing ...

Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, a four-part docuseries exploring the life and reign of Cleopatra, was released this month to almost immediate criticism. The series, produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith ...

Like some misleading, clickbait title from the 19th century, Cleopatra’s Needles have no connection to the legendary queen.