Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAIRO — Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Tancredi Scarpelli - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Cleopatra VII is one of those historical figures whose name sparks ...

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. Some Egyptians ...

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...

Step beyond Hollywood myths to uncover the real Cleopatra, the final ruler of ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty. This documentary explores her Greek-Macedonian origins, exceptional education in ...

The Ptolemaic queen of Egypt was a reason for a heated discussion when, in 2020, Gal Gadot was cast as Cleopatra in a Paramount Pictures’ film that never went to production. Apart from some media ...

Writing of the 1949 black comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” in which Alec Guinness played every member of an eccentric aristocratic family, A.N. Wilson remarked on how “an essentially sad story ...

Recent archaeological discoveries and scholarly research are shedding new light on the reign of Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. These findings, which include a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in ...

History paints Cleopatra as a seductress. But there’s little we actually know about Egypt’s politically savvy last queen. One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient hidden tunnel beneath a temple that they hope leads to the long-lost tomb of Queen Cleopatra. The massive tunnel was discovered by an ...

CAIRO — Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series. “Queen Cleopatra,” which is released May 10 ...