In 46 B.C. Cleopatra and her entourage of sycophants and slaves journeyed to Rome to make obeisance to the new dominant world power and to claim a husband. Cleo had given birth to Julius' son, but ...

History paints Cleopatra as a seductress. But there’s little we actually know about Egypt’s politically savvy last queen. One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be ...

Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

Daisy Dunn - Author, The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World In the first century B.C.E., Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra competed for Mark Antony's heart. Illustration by Meilan ...

To save Egypt, Cleopatra masterminded her own divine transformation. This is the shocking story of how she became the living goddess Isis, captivated Rome's most powerful men, and used myth as the ...