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 ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new ...

You think 21st century culture is celebrity-obsessed? Try Mediterranean society at the dawn of the first millennium, when politics were entirely personal, and rulers’ romantic entanglements could be ...

Cleopatra, the world's first female superstar, has held people's fascination for more than 2,000 years. Now her story is being retold in the rock opera, Cleopatra, A Life Unparalleled, at the Crystal ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s erudite, well-researched and often witty reconstruction of the brief life of Cleopatra, now out in paperback, establishes in her opening pages the fact ...