A single event can reshape a world - or shatter it forever. Fifteen years ago, Caesar escaped assassination, and went on to be crowned Emperor of Rome. His son by Cleopatra, Caesarion, carries the ...

Who is the most famous woman of the Greco-Roman world? No contest: Cleopatra. In fact, you may have to think a bit to come up with someone for second and third place (Sappho? Pericles’ mistress ...

Among the finds: 16-foot-tall statues of a Ptolemaic king and queen, dated between 332 and 30 B.C., that once stood outside the Temple of Amon at Heracleion, where Cleopatra was crowned queen; coins, ...