These findings include artifacts that hint at the grandeur and complexity of ancient Egyptian society ... Martinez believes this piece depicts Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s last Ptolemaic ruler ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and ...

A first-century A.D. Roman would falsely assert that "ancient writers repeatedly speak of ... on Egyptian coins is likely her most authentic portrait. Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

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 biggest prize in the ancient world ...