"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The new Netflix documentary series Queen Cleopatra has already courted controversy over its decision to ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear. By Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer When you purchase an independently ...

Even in outline, the life of Cleopatra Selene, daughter of the more famous Cleopatra and the Roman general Marc Antony, seems drawn from a romance novel. Orphaned at age 11 by the suicides of her ...

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...

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 before ...

Cleopatra played a difficult and skilful game negotiating relations with Rome, engaging both diplomatically and personally first with Julius Caesar and then Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Our experts ...

It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written “Cleopatra: A Life.” The book injects the Egyptian queen with a complexity ...

She was a child of incest, a born goddess, a queen by 18 -- and possibly the richest magnate in the Mediterranean before she turned 20. By 21, she was cavorting in bed with the most powerful emperor ...

Really, it makes you wonder. What is with all the sudden flurry of interest in Cleopatra? This new biography is out; a movie is talked about, Angelina Jolie is mentioned as a possible candidate to ...

The ladies of Cleopatra presented their 46th annual Rendezvous bal masque Saturday at Mardi Gras World, celebrating the krewe's favorite animated characters and superheroes. As the tableau began, the ...