She is known in pop culture as simply Cleopatra, although there were six Egyptian queens before her with the same name.
Take a virtual tour of highlights from the 2001 British Museum's Cleopatra of Egypt exhibit.
Pharaoh Ptolemy XII died in March 51 BC making the 18 year old Cleopatra and her 12 year old brother Ptolemy XIII joint monarchs.
"Cleopatra was descended from a line of rulers that began with Ptolemy I, a general who served under Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE."
King Tut One presents Cleopatra's biography in five parts, with a special emphasis on her childhood years.
Cinderella , a history and reading fanatic, created this Royalty.nu site "for fun" in 1998. The seven-page Cleopatra biography is in iPaper format...
Today's tour of ancient Egyptian art takes us to museums all around the world. We'll be stopping in London, Detroit, Seattle, Paris and New York. Sorry – no frequent flyer miles will be rewarded.
"Board games were very common in ancient Egypt and people from all levels of society played them.
"For over three thousand years the Egyptians adhered to a prescribed set of rules as to how a work of art in three dimensions should be presented.
"Religion was an omnipresent element in the Egyptian world, and art that expressed the tenets of this religion flourished.
To begin your tour, enter The Exhibition, where you'll be presented with a time line.
"The collection of ancient Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum ranks among the finest outside Cairo.
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