Wikipedia traffic, which is documented daily, delivers a somewhat-distorted reflection of the world — the dreadful and the divine, the marvelous and the mundane. She was a supremely well-tutored ruler ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than a political tool. "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885 The struggle with her ...

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. Schiff's latest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleopatra ruled Egypt from 51 BCE until 30 BCE, when she took her own life following defeat by her Roman rival Octavian. Too often ...

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 ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

Forget what you think you know about Cleopatra. She wasn't a voracious seductress who led men to their doom. She never wore bangs à la Liz Taylor circa 1963. And she almost certainly didn't die by the ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s erudite, well-researched and often witty reconstruction of the brief life of Cleopatra, now out in paperback, establishes in her opening pages the fact ...