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Revisiting the mystery of Cleopatra's tomb

Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, remains one of history’s most studied and debated ...
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How a Celebrated Statue of Cleopatra Journeyed From Acclaim to Obscurity—and Back

When Edmonia Lewis presented her five-foot, two-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the crowd that swarmed around it was the largest at the ...