The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth ...

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 ...

In a recent interview for The Guardian, El-Arifi explains that Cleopatra started as “historical fiction,” but quickly turned into a memoir due to a lack of illuminating historical sources. Over the ...

The Ptolemaic period in Egypt was glittering — but no match for a rising Rome.

A Brief History of Cleopatra draws on recent archaeological finds and fresh interpretations of ancient texts to separate truth from myth to set this incomparably beautiful queen in context.

The queen’s grave might not be lost, after all! For centuries, the final resting place of Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s last pharaoh, has been one of history's greatest mysteries. Now, a groundbreaking ...

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned 400 years earlier, were dangerous. We do not know whether Cleopatra ...