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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleopatra ruled Egypt from 51 BCE until 30 BCE, when she took her own life following defeat by her Roman rival Octavian. Too often ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

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 ...

The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s erudite, well-researched and often witty reconstruction of the brief life of Cleopatra, now out in paperback, establishes in her opening pages the fact ...

A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear. By Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer When you purchase an independently ...