Angelina Jolie‘s scrapped “Cleopatra” movie was part romance epic and part “political thriller with assassinations and sex,” according to the movie’s original screenwriter Brian ...

Famous for her wiles, Cleopatra has been played by beauties like Theda Bara (above), Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh. But an Egyptologist's recreation shows the real Queen was ...

Some say she killed herself by having an asp —a viper or Egyptian cobra— bite her arm, but the truth is, barely any traces of Cleopatra or her reign survive today. 9. The movie Cleopatra is ...

And there was none among them more iconic than Cleopatra … her story resonates with every woman.” One interviewee in the program asserts, “I remember my grandmother saying to me, ‘I don’t care what ...

Nonetheless, the trailer shows me saying that I imagine Cleopatra to have curly hair and a similar skin complexion to mine. It’s not too dissimilar to how Christians around the world present the ...

Cleopatra was descended from a line of Macedonian Greek kings who ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C., when it was annexed by Rome, and many scholars contend that she likely had little, if any ...