👑 Cleopatra Testing Poisons On Those Condemned To Death. By Alexandre Cabanel, 1887 CE. Oil on canvas, exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
#Cleopatra #CleopatraVII #WomensHistoryMonth #History #Art #Painting #AlexandreCabanel
🤯 The Queen Who Refused to Fade: CLEOPATRA VII. This coin, minted with Mark Antony, captures the moment East and West collided in love and war. 2,000 years later, her image still reigns! 👇
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#CleopatraVII #AncientCoins
"The discovery (?) of #Cleopatra's tomb will allow, with the modern technology, to know exactly how she died. We can even reconstruct her face."
• Note: But experts remain skeptical..🤔
#pharaoh #CleopatraVII #goddessIsis #Alexandria #TaposirisMagna #KathleenMartínez #NationalGeographic #BobBallard
👑 On this day in 30 BCE: Cleopatra VII poisons herself with the bite of a snake (traditionally an asp, though most scholars today believe it was an Egyptian cobra).
🖼️ Painting by Reginald Arthur.
#CleopatraVII #Cleopatra #Egypt #AncientEgypt #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #History #HistoryBuffs
On the #DenderaZodiac, the Cardinal goddess Isis, sometimes known as the ‘Sow of Heliopolis’ holds up the 30 degrees segment #Taurus. Note pig in the middle #Decan. #EgyptianAstrology time of #CleopatraVII.
As befitting the temple dedicated to the cow goddess #Hathor, the 1st century #AstronomicalCeiling of #DenderaTemple shows the #SunInTaurus. Maybe #TransitOfVenus also? Time of #CleopatraVII.
I think it’s amazing how #CleopatraVII of #Egypt and #JuliusCaesar of #Roman occurred at the same time in history. More amazing still that they had a child together?
#didyouknow
#Interestingfacts
#historymemes #historyisamazing #shorthistoryof
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During excavations in 1929, a skeleton was discovered in Ephesos, Türkiye. It has been claimed that the skull belongs to a half-sister of #CleopatraVII. A new study says that it dates between 205-36 BCE and is that of a male.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via @ticiaverveer.bsky.social
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Dec2024: excavations at #TaposirisMagna a hoard of ca. 300 coins has been found: dating #CleopatraVII kingdom 51-30 BC, with images of #CleopatraVII on coins! Among other pieces: 9 marble busts, #Hathor ring, scarab, 1 bust with possible likeness of #Cleopatra!
