Dame Judi Dench lost her voice for days after frightening on-stage snake incident
Dame Judi Dench has recalled the time she lost her voice after a lifelong fear of snakes came home to roost while she was ...
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Octavian and Mark Antony: Was Cleopatra Behind the Conflict Between the Two Consuls?
Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...
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Cleopatra, The Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt
Upon arriving in Alexandria, Cleopatra buried Antony and retreated to her chamber, where she took her own life. Plutarch states that she died at 39 after being bitten by an asp, a poisonous snake, ...
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What Did Queen Cleopatra Look Like?
Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC). Right: A posthumous painted portrait of Cleopatra VII of ...
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The mystery of an ancient skull takes a new turn after DNA analysis
The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...