Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, and her family's shocking history is the key to her power. Trace her royal lineage back to Alexander the Great himself and uncover the web of ambition, palace intrigue, and ...

You think 21st century culture is celebrity-obsessed? Try Mediterranean society at the dawn of the first millennium, when politics were entirely personal, and rulers’ romantic entanglements could be ...

There is no evidence to suggest that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra had African features. A most beautiful moment for me was when I received a young man at my office called Shehab Ahmed together ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Before Cleopatra VII became Egypt’s most famous ruler, her family’s story stretched back centuries to Alexander the Great and the Macedonian conquest of Egypt. From palace intrigue and inter-family ...

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, ...

Netflix's upcoming documentary on Queen Cleopatra has become the subject of debate and criticism on social media over the blackwashing of the legendary ruler of Egypt. In the upcoming documentary, ...

It does, of course, pertain to the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whose name still rings through history thanks to extremely enthusiastic reports of her beauty, her interactions with the Roman Empire, and ...

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, ...