Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history, but few people know that her daughter also became a remarkable and influential ruler. Cleopatra Selene II, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark ...

A significant discovery in Cleopatra’s alleged tomb may have just revealed additional information about the ancient queen. When archaeologist Kathleen Martinez led her Egyptian-Dominican team to ...

HISTORIC never-before-seen artefacts painstakingly curated by a Barnsley-born Egyptologist are being shown off to the pu...

This queen of Egypt was not unusually attractive, author Stacy Schiff argues, but her arresting, enthralling personality captured the love and attention of two of the world’s greatest leaders. At the ...

Barnsley’s Cleopatra has come home to reign with TV Egyptologist Prof Joann Fletcher’s spectacular new free exhibition ...

Introduction -- Cleopatra's ancestry and background -- The Ptolemaic heritage and the involvement with Rome -- Cleopatra's youth and education -- Becoming queen (51-47 BC) -- Consolidating the empire ...

Cleopatra played a difficult and skilful game negotiating relations with Rome, engaging both diplomatically and personally first with Julius Caesar and then Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Our experts ...