Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, ...

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new study into a ...

For decades, scholars have believed that a skeleton discovered by archaeologists in the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesos in 1929 belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister, Arsinoe IV. However, recent ...

Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was not that of Arsinoë IV, half-sister to Cleopatra VII. Rather, it’s the skull of a young male between the ...

A nearly century-old mystery surrounding a skull thought to belong to Cleopatra’s murdered sister was solved thanks to modern DNA analysis. Archaeologists exploring a Turkish tomb in 1929 made the ...