For centuries, the death of Cleopatra has been wrapped in mystery, drama, and legend. Most people know the famous version of the story. The last queen of Egypt reportedly allowed a deadly snake to ...

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 ...

The death of Cleopatra VII is a well-worn story, one that has been dramatized time and time again. It has served as inspiration for fictional stories of powerful leaders and doomed lovers, perhaps ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra. Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the ancient world. She was the last ...

All you’ll see at the Salem museum is a cardboard cut-out. But it invokes a marble wonder that moldered in a saloon and a bulk mail center for years before being rediscovered. In our weekly series, ...