Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. The queen's life and death have become part of popular legend The story that Cleopatra, ancient queen of Egypt, was killed by a snake bite has been rejected as ...

Cleopatra was the last female pharaoh of Egypt. When the Roman Empire took control of Egypt in 44 BC, Cleopatra decided to take her own life rather than surrender to the new Roman Emperor, Octavian.

A recent German study ruled out the classical story that last Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra the seventh died of a snake bite and found it more likely the queen committed suicide with a lethal drug ...

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, takes her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome. Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., ...

U.K. researchers have put the bite on the theory a snake killed Cleopatra. The widely held belief is that a snake hidden in a basket of figs killed the ancient Egyptian queen on Aug. 12, 30 B.C., and ...

The actor recalls a terrifying moment when playing the doomed Egyptian queen during a 1987 production of the Shakespeare classic Wriggly creatures have always scared Judi Dench. “I’m a person who is ...

The story that Cleopatra, ancient queen of Egypt, was killed by a snake bite has been rejected as "impossible" by University of Manchester academics. Egyptologists and snake experts have combined to ...