What was the deal with Julius Caesar and Cleopatra’s ‘situationship’?
This doomed romance ended abruptly in 44 BCE when Caesar was quite literally stabbed in the back (and from all sides) by his ...
BBC4 年
Everything you didn’t know about Cleopatra
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 ...
National Geographic news1 年
The search for Cleopatra
She traced her obsession with Cleopatra to an argument she'd had with her father in 1990, when she was 24 years old. She wandered into his library one day looking for a copy of Shakespeare's ...
BBC11 个月
Egyptians complain over Netflix depiction of Cleopatra as black
She succeeded her father Ptolemy XII in 51 BC and ruled until her death in 30 BC. Afterwards, Egypt fell under Roman domination. The identity of Cleopatra's mother is not known, and historians say ...