It’s long been thought that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite. Ancient accounts tell of a snake that was hidden inside a basket of figs brought in from the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A cobra is typically 1.5m long, and experts say that it would have been difficult to sneak a snake of that size into Cleopatra’s tomb without raising a few eyebrows! They believe that even if ...

He journeyed with other experts to Alexandria, Egypt, where they consulted ancient medical texts and snake experts. "Cleopatra wanted to remain beautiful in her death to maintain her myth," he ...

He wanted Cleopatra as a trophy to parade in Rome but, rather than submit, she too committed suicide. Legend has it she did this by encouraging a snake to bite her, although her two handmaidens ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...