A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian ... not Roman, art styles. The Roman period in Egypt began in 30 B.C. after Cleopatra's death.

It is a story of art and architecture transcending ... obelisk each symbolized Alexandria’s ancient Egyptian heritage. Calling the obelisk “Cleopatra’s Needle” helped tie the city to ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

It is not Cleopatra at all; it is Roman," Hawass tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus. As Jarus explains, pharaohs were portrayed ...

the characteristic striped head cloth worn by ancient Egyptian pharaohs. Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who led the mission, believes that the marble statuette depicts Queen Cleopatra ...

It is not Cleopatra at all. It is Roman,” former Egyptian minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass told Live Science. He noted that during the queen's time, pharaohs were portrayed in Egyptian art ...

From the earliest days of Predynastic Egypt, so far in the past that they would have seemed to even the very oldest dynasties as distant as Cleopatra’s Egypt ... our understanding of later ancient ...

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