Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleopatra ruled Egypt from 51 BCE until 30 BCE, when she took her own life following defeat by her Roman rival Octavian. Too often ...

A features writer at Collider, Shreejit hails from a country known for its unabashed love for its cinema. During his postgrad in Journalism, Shreejit discovered his love for film analysis through his ...

Queen Cleopatra is the second in Jada Pinkett Smith’s African Queens series of drama-docuseries hybrids; this time the focus is on one of the most famous African queens of them all, Egypt’s Cleopatra.

Imagine ruling a kingdom once you turn 18 years old. Cleopatra VII was that young when she became Egypt’s pharaoh, the term for the country’s “ruler,” in 51 B.C.E. When Cleopatra’s father Ptolemy XII ...

Cleopatra was 18 when she and her 10-year-old brother, Ptolemy, jointly ascended the throne of Egypt. The family had a long history of internecine betrayal and murder, so it was no surprise when the ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, sometimes referred to as the Lagid Dynasty (after Ptolemy I’s father Lagus) was a Macedonian Greek royal dynasty that ruled the Ptolemaic kingdom in ancient Egypt during the ...