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In 2009, a BBC documentary speculated that Cleopatra might have been part North African. This was based largely on the examination of a headless skeleton of a female child in a 20 BCE tomb in Ephesus (modern Turkey), together with the old notes and photographs of the now-missing skull.
- Was Cleopatra Black?
- Experts Disagree About Cleopatra’s Heritage
- The Argument For Cleopatra’s Potential Egyptian Heritage
“We don’t know her exact racial heritage. We don’t know who Cleopatra’s mother was. There’s been a lot of research to prove that her mother was Egyptian, but we can’t know for sure,” Professor Haley says in Queen Cleopatra. Dr. Sally-Ann Ashton, the author of Cleopatra and Egypt, says in the docuseries that Cleopatra’s grandmother’s identity is als...
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has already responded to Netflix’s Queen Cleopatradocuseries with a statement insisting that Cleopatra was of Macedonian descent. (Macedonia was a kingdom located in modern-day Greece.) “The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Archaeology [Dr. Mustafa Waziri] confirms that Queen Cleopatra was...
For now, it seems that historians will have to agree to disagree. But some historians are leaning toward her having native Egyptian blood. “If you look at her depictions, she looks different depending on who it is that’s depicting her,” Debora Heard, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology specializing in Nubian archaeology & Egyptian studies, says in th...
- Margeaux Sippell
Jul 22, 2024 · Was Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt) a Black African queen? How would we know? Here's a summary of the evidence.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Apr 20, 2023 · Debates over Cleopatra’s “race” were reactivated after Netflix released a trailer for its four-part docudrama Queen Cleopatra last week, starring Adele James, a Black actor. The series is...
May 8, 2023 · As far as Cleopatra goes, bas-reliefs and statues depict someone not unlike the Egyptian women you might meet today. She was not, in any modern sense of the word, “black”.
May 11, 2023 · Executive-produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, who said she wanted the series to “represent Black women,” Queen Cleopatra features British actress Adele James as Cleopatra VII (who lived from...
May 10, 2023 · Netflix docudrama series on the Egyptian queen’s life has landed in controversy because Cleopatra is portrayed by a Black woman in the film.
