Cleopatra was, in fact, ... Martinez discovered at the temple of Taposiris Magna revealed the first direct link between the temple site and Cleopatra’s family line.

When it comes to Cleopatra, the enigmatic ruler whose political savvy — and romantic entanglements — have made her an endless source of fascination, Hollywood has never gotten it right ...

Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.

At the crux of the debate among historians has been whether Cleopatra, who hailed from a long line of Macedonian Greeks, would have darker skin because of her African ancestry.

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Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and upheld the family tradition, but was for her time and place remarkably well behaved. She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, ...

Pharaoh Cleopatra VII, a Greek woman of the Ptolemy line, and the last pharaoh to read and speak the language of ancient Egypt, was not Black.