Queen Cleopatra was survived by her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, who would go on to rule a kingdom of her own in North Africa.

History has depicted Cleopatra as a great beauty, befitting a woman who as Queen of Egypt seduced Julius Caesar, and then his rival Mark Antony. But the coin, which goes on show on Wednesday at ...

Dr Kathleen Martinez has been searching for the elusive tomb of Cleopatra VII for nearly two decades, and now believes she ...

So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated ...

In short, Bianchi says, for Cleopatra “there is nothing that approaches the Western concept of a portrait in either ancient Egyptian or ancient Greek art.” A coin from Antony and Cleopatra’s alliance, ...

Among the findings reported by Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has been digging at the site since 2005 in search of Cleopatra VII’s tomb, were 337 ancient coins bearing the queen ...

Image Source: Wikipedia Dated to 32 B.C., this coin bearing a portrait of Cleopatra has renewed the debate over whether she was actually beautiful. It's an irrelevant question, says biographer ...

My biggest misgiving is a sense that Cleopatra herself is a lot less important to these discoveries than it seems here. There are some traces attributed to her, of course, aside from gold coins ...

Cleopatra started producing a Roman coin while she was living with her new lover Marc Antony. This Roman Denarius is very unique for bearing portraits on both sides of it. Having a foreign queen ...

For the past 15 years, a team led by Kathleen Martinez has been excavating the site, finding remains that date back to the time of Cleopatra, including a hoard of coins minted during her reign.