By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt ... and the pharaohs became sources of pride for these ...

Cairo — As soon as Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming "docudrama" about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, drama started bubbling up online. The preview quickly drew criticism.

Ms. Schiff’s Cleopatra pulses with life. Vivid, nuanced and steeped in—while healthily skeptical of—ancient sources ... the Great’s conquest of Egypt, and the regional succession ...

One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt ... didn’t exist in Cleopatra’s time. (Searching for the true face—and the burial place—of Cleopatra.) Written sources about Cleopatra are ...

Archaeologists in Egypt ... said that Cleopatra’s family had already built their tombs in Alexandria and she was likely hiding there when she took her own life. “The ancient sources also ...

The head of a statue depicting Cleopatra, the last active pharaoh of ancient Egypt, is displayed as part ... of their civil war and biased Roman sources had to present a worthy enemy to justify ...

A woman has yet to be elected to the highest office in the United States, but 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt it wasn’t unusual for women to rule—and some became all powerful, like Cleopatra ...

An ancient tunnel discovered in Egypt ... sources, e.g. Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and modern investigations have mostly veered between Alexandria as the capital at the time of Cleopatra VII ...

She was one of the most famous rulers of Ancient Egypt and other territories across the Middle East, in addition to being one ...

AMIR MAKAR/AFP via Getty Images Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday new discoveries made in Alexandria, including an ancient bust that could represent Queen Cleopatra VII.