“Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, is a powerful exhibition. But that’s not really because of Cleopatra.

Objects found in the temple of Taposiris Magna, including coins and the head of the statue possibly representing Cleopatra VII. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt The ...

LONDON – So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the ...

This coin is internationally famous as a rare realistic image of Cleopatra, one of the world's most powerful women. Famed for her intelligence, charisma and political skills, Cleopatra VII ruled ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old gold coin depicting the ancient King Ptolemy III, an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra.

Cleopatra, countered Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry, was white, with “Hellenistic characteristics,” an assertion that her Greek Macedonian ancestry and coin portraits would seem to confirm.

An unspecified number of the coins contain minted side-profile portraits of Cleopatra VII, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Will the Real Cleopatra Please Stand Up? According to Hollywood, she was model-gorgeous, violet-eyed, and dripping in gold. But what did Cleopatra actually look like?

So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated ...

This Lovers' Coin was found last summer in Israel. Minted around 35 B.C., it depicts Cleopatra on one side and Marc Antony on the other. Four are known to exist. handout By Matthew Hansen / World ...

Mark Antony and Cleopatra — one of history's most famous romantic couples — were not the beauties immortalized in prose and portrayed in film, according to a 2,000-year-old coin bearing their ...

LONDON — So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion of academics at Britain’s Newcastle University, based on a Roman denarius coin that depicts the celebrated ...