Cleopatra
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[editor’s note: I purchased the Kindle edition, which explains the lack of page references in what follows] Brown, P. (2013). The murder of Cleopatra: History’s greatest cold case. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. This is not a scholarly book. The author — Pat Brown — is a noted criminal profiler who has authored several books germaine…
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I note that Hilke Thur seems to be still giving talks on the Arsinoe thing (e.g. Archaeologist says bones found in Turkey are probably those of Cleopatra’s half-sister in the Charlotte Observer), so we’ll take this opportunity to gather in one place all the relevant posts: Cleopatra, Arsinoe, and the Implications (the tease for the…
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Just saw this post by author Pat Brown, who is promoting her work via the Huffington Post … here’s the incipit: For 2000 years, historians and Egyptologists have written of Cleopatra VII’s death in 30 BCE, repeating again and again the tale that the last pharaoh of Egypt committed suicide along with her two handmaidens…
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Here’s the tease: In the years following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, internal Roman power struggles—combined with the increasingly negative response to Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony’s romantic partnership—led to the deterioration of the relationship between Egypt and Rome. The conflict ultimately came to a head with the Battle of Actium in…
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Time for the annual update from Dominican Today: The biggest tomb of mummies, one Cleopatra’s masks and the temple of Isis are a few of the finds of Dominican Republic’s most famous architect, while fending off venomous snakes and scorpions, for which she’s “the only woman who dares enter the labyrinths” Kathleen Martinez made the…
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