In 30 B.C., Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII died by suicide after they were defeated by Octavian's forces in a civil war. But what if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian, the man who became ...

Bowing to perhaps the most famous woman ever to have lived, the Field Museum will host the greatest exhibition on Cleopatra ever mounted, using hundreds of pieces of artwork and artifacts drawn from ...

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Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...