Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history, but few people know that her daughter also became a remarkable and ...

It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written “Cleopatra: A Life.” The book injects the Egyptian queen with a complexity ...

The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth Witch, whore, ...

Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, remains one of history’s most studied and debated ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts at the Taposiris Magna temple complex near Alexandria, Egypt, where some researchers believe the tomb of Cleopatra VII is located. Among the findings ...

This queen of Egypt was not unusually attractive, author Stacy Schiff argues, but her arresting, enthralling personality captured the love and attention of two of the world’s greatest leaders. At the ...

How many of you enjoy a good biography? If you do, you may want to check out "Cleopatra: A Life," written by Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff. Let me start off by saying I have not read this book.