She traced her obsession with Cleopatra to an argument she'd had with her father in 1990, when she was 24 years old. She wandered into his library one day looking for a copy of Shakespeare's ...

She recounted to me that, as a young girl, she listened in on a scholarly discussion in her father's library about Cleopatra. "They were speaking very badly about her and about her image," she ...

After a fifth-century A.D. earthquake, Cleopatra's palace slid into the Mediterranean. Alexandria's magnificent lighthouse, library and museum are all gone. The city has sunk some 20 feet.

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...

A significant archaeological find has been made in the ancient Egyptian city of Taposiris Magna, which could finally see the discovery of Cleopatra VII’s long-lost tomb. A tunnel, partially ...