Eyes ringed with kohl, her lithe body draped in a tunic, Cleopatra VII has been memorialized ad nauseam in numerous art forms, from paintings and opera to film and a seemingly endless string of books.

Imagine ruling a kingdom once you turn 18 years old. Cleopatra VII was that young when she became Egypt’s pharaoh, the term for the country’s “ruler,” in 51 B.C.E. When Cleopatra’s father Ptolemy XII ...

She is known in pop culture as simply Cleopatra, although there were six Egyptian queens before her with the same name. Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) was the last pharaoh in the Ptolemy dynasty, and ...

Eyes ringed with kohl, her lithe body draped in a tunic, Cleopatra VII has been memorialized ad nauseam in numerous art forms, from paintings and opera to film and a seemingly endless string of books.