Cleopatra history

We know Cleopatra as one of the most powerful and successful queens. Have a look into her history with our collection of Cleopatra facts.

Archaeologists from the University of Hawaii, in collaboration with renowned perfumers, have successfully recreated two of the most famous fragrances used in ancient Egypt. Robert Littman and Jay Silverstein, archaeologists at the University of Hawaii, set out to recreate the scent of perfumes that may have been worn by Queen Cleopatra and contributed to the …

Cleopatra may have ruled more than two thousand years ago, but her reign is still teaching Kara Cooney about the relationship between women and power today.

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Shakepeare’s “lass unparallel”, the mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and died before she reached the age of forty, when Alexandria fell to Octavian-Augustus in 30 BC. She is portrayed as the supreme seductress, beautiful, unprincipled and licentious. These aspects of her character have been handed down to […]

*NEFERTEM: God of Perfume Also known as He Who is Beautiful and Water Lily of the Sun, was god of both healing and beautification, perfumes and aromatherapy. In ancient Egypt, perfume wasn’t like the perfume of today - perfume was holistic, much as aromatherapy today. His function as a solar god was that of the sunrise. Nefertem was the god who helped raise the sun into the sky, passing it to Ra as one would give a flower to a guest at an ancient Egyptian party.