Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC). Right: A posthumous painted portrait of Cleopatra VII of ...

Cleopatra’s Needle in London is seen from the Thames. Credit: Ktulucommonswiki. CC BY SA 3.0 “Cleopatra’s Needle” evokes the romanticism of the famous Egyptian queen. However, like some click-bate ...

(file) A mystery dating back nearly a century about a skull believed to belong to Cleopatra's murdered half-sister has been solved using modern DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating. The skull ...

Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning. Born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony amid their alliance following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Cleopatra Selene II entered the world during ...

A skull once thought to be Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoë IV was identified as that of a Roman boy with developmental disorders, ending decades of speculation. The search for Arsinoë IV’s remains now ...

The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...

With films like Elizabeth Taylor's 'Cleopatra' (1963) to the thrilling 'The Mummy' franchise, it's safe to say that this incredible civilization still amazes us centuries later. From mummies ...

Antiquities available for viewing include a 36-foot-high, 83-ton statue of the pharaoh Ramses II, canopic jars still containing mummified organs, 3,000-year-old writing boards ... 3100 B.C. and ending ...

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They reveal fine details in tattoos dating to around 1250 A.D. that aren’t visible to the naked eye. This August 2024 photo provided by researchers shows a mummified human from Peru’s Chancay culture.