ABUSIR, Egypt (CNN)-- Today, I met Cleopatra's lawyer. Well, not her lawyer but someone who is determined to defend the legendary queen against centuries of bad publicity. Kathleen Martinez is a ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation ...

This portrayal hasn't been free of controversy, though - the decision to cast a black actress (Casualty's Adele James) as Cleopatra caused uproar in Egypt, where academics claim their queen was of ...

For the nth time, the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was not ... Critics abolished the possibility that Queen Cleopatra could be black adding that according to historic references, she had wheat ...

Cleopatra was Black.’” Dr Islam Issa ... More than 20 adaptations in film and TV have been made about the Egyptian queen, including two Bollywood adaptations and an Asterix & Obelix entry ...

So her rule of Egypt was over, but her legacy lived on. Her three children were taken to Rome and raised by Mark Antony’s widow. One of her daughters. Cleopatra Selene, later became a queen ...

Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean. With Caesar already notorious for his sexual energy, the two became lovers almost immediately. The following ...

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Her mother was possibly Egyptian, so she was not the white beauty as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, or even black ... but laughably bad mini-series, Queen Cleopatra. When her father, Ptolemy ...

The leading archaeologist in the excavation, Kathleen Martinez, has long believed that the Taposiris Magna could house the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen. Cleopatra VII was deeply ...

Writing of the 1949 black ... B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the seventh, and last, in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C ...

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic ...