Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Christina Ricci reveals her 3-year-old daughter Cleopatra calls her 'Christina,' saying that she 'felt like I was being ...

Cleopatra, often known as the world's first ... while the ruling class was prone to bitter in-fighting. Married to her brother Ptolemy XIII in her father's will, she united with Julius Caesar ...

The first one was Cleopatra’s little brother Ptolemy XIII. After Cleo’s dad died, she was put in charge, but at the time women weren’t allowed to rule without a male co-ruler, so the easiest ...

The Ptolemies had practised brother-sister marriages (and other in-the-family marriages as well) for several generations. According to this tradition, Cleopatra was probably married to her ten ...

Cleopatra was born in Egypt in 69 BC – 68 BC. When her father, Ptolemy XII, died in 51 BC, she took the throne as co-regent alongside her young brother Ptolemy XIII. It is believed she may have ...

To win Caesar's support from her brother, Cleopatra hides herself in a rug, which Apollodorus (Cesare Danova), her servant, presents to Caesar. The Roman is immediately infatuated. Banishing ...

the customs of ancient Egypt meant that she needed a male co-ruler and so Cleopatra married her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII. When Ptolemy reached the age of 13 in 49 BCE, he plotted to overthrow ...

The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...