The story that Cleopatra, ancient queen of Egypt, was killed by a snake bite has been rejected as "impossible" by University of Manchester academics. Egyptologists and snake experts have combined to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few events in history combine as much drama and uncertainty as the death of Cleopatra. A fatal snake bite is the stuff of movies ...

Academics at The University of Manchester have dismissed the long-held argument that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite. Andrew Gray, curator of herpetology at Manchester ...

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(CNN)-- Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, died from drinking a mixture of poisons and not from a snake bite, a German historian said Wednesday. The theory by Christoph Schaefer, a professor of ancient ...

A recent German study ruled out the classical story that last Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra the seventh died of a snake bite and found it more likely the queen committed suicide with a lethal drug ...

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. The queen's life and death have become part of popular legend The story that Cleopatra, ancient queen of Egypt, was killed by a snake bite has been rejected as ...

Cobras or vipers would have been too large to get unseen into the queen’s palace. Unlikely Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite Ancient Egyptians rightly believed that cobras were good mothers ...