According to popular belief, Cleopatra killed herself by allowing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her, but according to the Roman-era writers Strabo, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio, Cleopatra …

2020年3月10日 · According to the most widely repeated theory of Cleopatra’s death, she died from a venomous snake bite, inflicted either by an asp (a small viper) or an Egyptian cobra. …

2023年6月2日 · It is widely believed that Cleopatra died by allowing herself to get bitten by an Egyptian cobra known as an “asp.” The asp is said to have been brought to her in a basket full …

2023年3月30日 · On an August day in 30 B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra VII locked herself in a mausoleum that she’d built on the palace grounds in Alexandria. The Queen of the Nile …

Clever snake experts and Egyptologists down at the University of Manchester have said that the suspected culprit – a cobra – couldn’t possibly have been small enough to be concealed in a …

2015年10月22日 · According to accepted historical accounts, Cleopatra, the last active pharaoh of ancient Egypt, committed suicide by holding a snake to her breast and allowing it to bite her, …

2020年12月15日 · August 10, 30 BC — There are two widely held beliefs about Cleopatra, the legendary Queen of Egypt, who is said to have died on this day. First, that she was beautiful; …

2015年10月21日 · Egyptologists and snake experts have combined to examine the plausibility of the tale of the queen being killed by a cobra hidden in a basket of figs. They believe a snake …

2024年1月14日 · Egyptian cobra (Naja haje). Yet it seems highly unlikely that the queen resorted to suicide by snake. This is what the distinguished toxinologist Dietrich Mebs and the historian …

It has been said that Cleopatra used the cobra to kill herself because it would also make sense in terms of Egyptian mythology, being associated with the sacred uraeus worn by the pharaohs. …