It has been suggested that Cleopatra, the last active ruler of the kingdom of Egypt, may have died from carbon monoxide ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...

Dame Judi Dench has recalled the time she lost her voice after a lifelong fear of snakes came home to roost while she was ...

Cleopatra Thea, an older sister of Cleopatra III, is said to have been forced to drink the poison she intended for her son Grypus. Mr. Llewellyn-Jones rebuts this claim with an only-the-Ptolemies ...

Julius Cesar and Cleopatra in the Horrible Histories TV series After the stuff about hiding in carpets, bathing in milk and being bitten by snakes (more on some of that later), the most famous ...