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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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

Beneath the harbor of Alexandria, archaeologists have uncovered coins bearing Cleopatra's image. Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s iconic queen, left behind few traces of her reign. Beneath the harbor of ...

She spent twenty years chasing a ghost. Now, the Dominican archaeologist who convinced Egypt to let her dig says the moment has arrived. Kathleen Martínez has teamed up with Robert Ballard—the man who ...

Few women have come into their looks as late as did Cleopatra VII, the first-century B.C. queen of Egypt. In accounts of the ancients she is no stunner. Only several hundred years after her death did ...