US writer Morgan Jerkins tweeted that Cleopatra should be played by someone "darker than a brown paper bag" as that would be more "historically accurate ... with popular depictions of the ...

Archaeologists were left stunned after they found a white marble statue which could well be a depiction of Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The excavation was carried out in the historic city of ...

But when the trailer was released last week many Egyptians condemned the depiction of Cleopatra. Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist and former antiquities minister, told the al-Masry al-Youm ...

reiterating that Cleopatra had "white skin and Hellenistic features". Soon after, an Egyptian TV channel announced that it would produce a big-budget documentary film “as historically accurate ...

However, some archaeologists disagree, noting that its facial features differ significantly from known depictions of Cleopatra, making it more plausible that the statue depicts a princess from the ...

For more than two millennia the legendary figure of Cleopatra has fascinated historians and has become a mainstay of popular depictions of Egypt. Her later relationship with Caesar’s general ...