“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.

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 ...

Statue head that may represent Cleopatra VII. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt . Additionally, 337 coins were found, many of which bear the image of Cleopatra VII, along with ...

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. It looked like any other 2,000 ...

According to Hollywood, she was model-gorgeous, violet-eyed, and dripping in gold. But what did Cleopatra actually look like? Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and author of the ...

Egyptologists are arguing whether a bust just found at Taposiris Magna actually depicts the famed empress Cleopatra VII. ... has arisen,” and a trove of 337 coins—many featuring Cleopatra’s ...

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.

In 2010, a West Virginia University student unearthed a gold coin that features the image of Antoninus Pius, the 15th Roman emperor who took the throne in the year 138 A.D.