When Edmonia Lewis presented her five-foot, two-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the crowd that swarmed around it was the largest at the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artifacts found while Dr. Kathleen Martínez searches for Cleopatra's tomb. With the discoveries of amphora, multiple anchors, a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts at the Taposiris Magna temple complex near Alexandria, Egypt, where some researchers believe the tomb of Cleopatra VII is located. Among the findings ...

Cleopatra's was an honorable death, a dignified death, an exemplary death. She had presided over it herself, proud and unbroken to the end. By the Roman definition she had at last done something right ...

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Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s iconic queen, left behind few traces of her reign. Beneath the harbor of modern-day Alexandria, archaeologists have uncovered ancient coins bearing her image amid the ruins of a ...

A recent discovery announced by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and published by National Geographic has reignited interest in the long-mysterious location of Cleopatra’s tomb. The ...

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The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...