*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Angelina Jolie is older, prettier and paler than Cleopatra was at the height of her reign. But if a much-discussed movie is made ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

Wikipedia traffic, which is documented daily, delivers a somewhat-distorted reflection of the world — the dreadful and the divine, the marvelous and the mundane. She was a supremely well-tutored ruler ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

Heartbroken by my failure to hear biographer Stacy Schiff speak when she was in Chicago last week, I lassoed her by email to discuss one of my favorite subjects: biography. Q: What is essential to the ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s erudite, well-researched and often witty reconstruction of the brief life of Cleopatra, now out in paperback, establishes in her opening pages the fact ...

Mythology, propaganda, Liz Taylor and the real Queen of the Nile Amy Crawford Contributing Writer The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than ...

In the annals of world history, few names are as recognizable as Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt. Cleopatra VII was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and the last pharaoh of Egypt. For centuries, ...