Ptolemaic dynasty

Scientists have recently recreated Cleopatra's favorite perfume from a recipe written in Ancient Greek nearly two millennia ago. The Greek queen of ancient Egypt's legacy as an exotic, seductive, and powerful ruler of Egypt has persisted throughout the centuries. While she...

Queen Cleopatra (VII Philopator) is one of the most recognizable names in history, but her daughter, who managed to survive the chaos that befell Ptolemaic Egypt, is much less well known. Cleopatra VII had four children. With Julius Caesar, she...

Recent research and excavations around the ancient Egyptian city of Thmuis, the place where the events recorded on the Rosetta Stone took place, is shedding new light on the turbulent events of the Ptolemaic era. As everyone knows, the Rosetta...

A significant part of Cleopatra VII Philopator's enduring reputation is as one of history's most famous femme fatales, renowned for her beauty and wit which attracted not one, but two of the Roman Republic's most powerful men. Whether or not...

Cleopatra VII Philopator is one of the most famous figures of antiquity, having ruled over ancient Egypt between 51 and 30 BC. A heroine to some and a villainess to others, her fate was intimately tied to the fortunes...

The new Netflix docudrama series Queen Cleopatra, which debuted on May 10, has received record low audience and critic scores on review websites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. The series, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and starring Adele James, has...

A television channel in Egypt has announced that it will produce its own Cleopatra documentary amid the current controversy surrounding the docudrama produced by Netflix, Queen Cleopatra. The new Egyptian channel, Al-Watha’eqeya, made the announcement in late April and expressed...

An ancient Greek necropolis of the Hellenistic Era near the present-day Library of Alexandria, Egypt, is set to open to the public from May 8, 2023, following the completion of a thorough three-year preservation project. The Shatby necropolis, as it...

Given the recent controversy surrounding the depiction of  Cleopatra VII Philopator as a black African woman in the upcoming Netflix documentary series Queen Cleopatra, the spotlight has again fallen on the physical appearance of this enigmatic and beguiling figure...

Tina Gharavi, the director of the highly controversial upcoming Netflix docudrama series Queen Cleopatra, has responded to criticism that the casting choices made in the series were deliberate acts of historical revisionism. The backlash against the series was prompted by...