Egyptian Research Project Script
One of our most famous Queens of all time we all know as Cleopatra’s full name was Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator. Cleopatra was the last official ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. One of Cleopatra's son’s Caesarion had a very short run of being pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Kingdom but when the Rome empire took over everything was ended. Just before this sometime around 51 BC Cleopatra had fell in love with a guy from the head of Rome named Caesar while him and another guy named Pompey were in Egypt trying to get safe from the war within Rome. In 47 BC Caesar had given Cleopatra a son by the name of Caesarion. When Caesar had gone back to Rome Cleopatra handed her position in the kingdom to her little brother who
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Caesarion was Caesar’s son, and Cleopatra Selene II, Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus were Mark Antony’s children. Alexander and Cleopatra were twins having shared the same birthday sometime in 40 BC and Ptolemy was born sometime in 36 BC.
Cleopatra was born sometime in 69 BC and died August 12, 30 BC. The cause of her death was suicide, she did this by allowing a aspis (egyptian cobra) to bite her chest and inject her with venom this may seem as an accident though it wasn’t an accidental suicide. Cleopatra’s suicide was not her only connection to snakes and there is actually a reasoning behind why she committed suicide with that particular snake. Cleopatra used the asp to commit suicide because the venom presented her with a large amount of sleepiness, made her feel heavy and didn’t result in spasms of pain. She found this as the least terrible way to die after she had tested different snakes on different people. Cleopatra also wore snakes on her headpiece, most of her jewelry, staff and much more. The reasoning behind this was queens and pharaohs of egypt used the uraeus cobra as a symbol of