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LOS ANGELES – Big, needlelike sculptures, based on Egyptian prototypes, are dotted all over America. The most famous, obviously, is the Washington Monument. Another, in Boston, commemorates the battle ...

Cleopatra VII Philopator was an astute ruler who used her charms to win over the most powerful men in the ancient world as ...

Step beyond Hollywood myths to uncover the real Cleopatra, the final ruler of ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty. This documentary explores her Greek-Macedonian origins, exceptional education in ...

Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain ...

Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, a four-part docuseries exploring the life and reign of Cleopatra, was released this month to almost immediate criticism. The series, produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith ...

Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...

When politics falls in love with pop, the result isn’t a romance. It’s a referendum on power, spectacle, and how we worship both. He used to run a G7 country. She sang about kissing a girl and loving ...

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s doomed power couple 'Antony and Cleopatra,' who are far better at love than war, in Simon Godwin's production at the National. By Demetrios Matheou ...