When Edmonia Lewis presented her five-foot, two-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the crowd that swarmed around it was the largest at the ...

As Rome closed in, Cleopatra faced total defeat as Octavian completed his conquest and Mark Antony fell from power. Ancient writers offered conflicting accounts of her death, debating whether it came ...

In her final days, Cleopatra faced Octavian’s conquest, Antony’s downfall, and the collapse of her dynasty. Ancient writers debated how Egypt’s last pharaoh truly died—by asp, poison, or hidden ...

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 ...