Responding to Netflix casting a Black woman as Cleopatra, a government-owned Egyptian media outlet is making a documentary that will depict the queen with an actress whose features and coloring are ...

The Netflix series "Queen Cleopatra" has been accused by some critics of "blackwashing Egypt's history" by casting a bi-racial actress. Contemporary depictions of historical figures shape our idea of ...

Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the ancient world. She was the last of a dynasty that ruled ancient Egypt for around 300 years, from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise ...