Cleopatra: A Drunken Bet - Cleopatra VII Philopator. One of the most famous women of all history with one of the most dramatic stories. We've all heard how she gained the affections of two of the most ...

A tunnel has been discovered under the Taposiris Magna temple in Egypt that is being described as a 'geometric miracle' and ...

For centuries, depictions of Cleopatra have emphasised her beauty and romantic entanglements – much more so than her two-decade rule of Egypt. The Institut du monde arabe (Arab World Institute ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with the network broadcast premiere of "Antony and Cleopatra" by John Adams, with ...

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda John Adams’s opera sizzles and then loses steam in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s 1930s-set production.

The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods.

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

Witnesses say that when Caesarion was older he bore a striking likeness to Caesar, especially in his walk and movements. Note also that like daughters of Egyptian Pharaohs, Cleopatra believed her ...

Imagine being this close to discovering Cleopatra’s lost tomb! A woman archaeologist, Kathleen Martinez, has spent nearly two decades searching for it, and she might have finally cracked the code.