What did Cleopatra look like? Millennia after the historical figure reigned as queen of Egypt, the question is still hotly debated by academics and artists. "After much hang-wringing and countless ...

"Cleopatra: A Life" (Little, Brown, $29.99), by Stacy Schiff: It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written "Cleopatra: ...

She is one of the most famous figures of ancient history, a name synonymous with beauty, yet no one knows what she really looked like. A Macedonian Greek, she ruled Egypt and was known for her ...

It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written “Cleopatra: A Life.” The book injects the Egyptian queen with a complexity ...