Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

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 ...

Famous for her wiles, Cleopatra has been played by beauties like Theda Bara (above), Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh. But an Egyptologist's recreation shows the real Queen was a ...

In her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)," Stacy Schiff revealed a woman who was more creative partner than muse to a husband who depended heavily on her. Make us a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The author of a new biography on Queen Cleopatra will read from her book, Cleopatra: A Life, tonight at the Central Branch of the Free Library. Her book is the basis for a movie ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Angelina Jolie is older, prettier and paler than Cleopatra was at the height of her reign. But if a much-discussed movie is made ...

Heartbroken by my failure to hear biographer Stacy Schiff speak when she was in Chicago last week, I lassoed her by email to discuss one of my favorite subjects: biography. Q: What is essential to the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. She was the most beautiful woman in the ancient world, and the most reviled. A ...

Cinematic sleights of hand can prove impossible to undo—Moses will forever be Charlton Heston, as Patton will live on as George C. Scott—but Cleopatra looked nothing like Theda Bara, Claudette Colbert ...