When Rome declared victory, Cleopatra VII confronted the humiliation of being marched before the masses. On 10 August 30 BC she took matters into her own hands, ending the Ptolemaic era and vowing ...

An unprecedented discovery could reveal new information about Cleopatra’s reign. Just below the Mediterranean’s surface, in Alexandria’s harbor, lie the ruins of a mysterious ancient monument. For ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...

When politics falls in love with pop, the result isn’t a romance. It’s a referendum on power, spectacle, and how we worship both. He used to run a G7 country. She sang about kissing a girl and loving ...

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LOS ANGELES -- She lived as the last ruler of ancient Egypt, but little is known about Cleopatra's death. For 2000 years, the location of her tomb has been a mystery with few leads, until now.

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have long sought to locate her tomb, which she shared with her lover, Mark ...

Ahmed Shawkat is a CBS News producer based in Cairo. He has worked for CBS News since 2016, prior to which he worked with several European networks including TVE, ZDF, SVT and Yle. The ...

One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...