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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra documentary, which premieres this Wednesday, May 10, has a reputation that precedes it, already grabbing headlines for its bold portrayal of the Egyptian Queen as a ...

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 ...