In 2025, the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, will present a cultural-historical exhibition focused on Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Running from April 13 to ...

Historic figures like Cleopatra take on a rather mythical quality over time. Between her very real reign, torrid love life, ...

LOS ANGELES – Big, needlelike sculptures, based on Egyptian prototypes, are dotted all over America. The most famous, obviously, is the Washington Monument. Another, in Boston, commemorates the battle ...

Ptolemy Caesar “Theos Philopator Philometor”—“Ptolemy Caesar, The God Who Loves His Father and Mother”—became king of Egypt at the tender age of three. His alleged father, Julius Caesar, had been ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...

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Few Romans would have chosen young Julius Caesar (ca 100–44 B.C.) as the man most likely to succeed on a grand scale and dominate their world. But when he led his troops across the Rubicon River in ...