Cleopatra VII (ruled 51-30 BC) was illustrious, intelligent and politically astute,
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...
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops from the U.S., Britain, Canada and France, stormed the coastline of Normandy, France, taking the occupying Germans by surprise.
Under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson, the United States purchased 827,987 square miles of territory from France on May 2, 1803 for $15 million.
On January 1, 1863, after three years of a brutal Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing Confederate slaves.
The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas is a former mission and fortress, built by the Spanish Empire in the 18th century.
On April 15, 1912, about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and quickly took on water.
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