Is this what Cleopatra looked like?

Um...is this really that important? Just saying. It is very interesting to know what a famous ancient figure might have looked like, but I wouldn't call it earth-shatteringly significant.

This scares me more than the other rendition. Cleo was way sexier than this and definitely had cat eyes. More cheek bones, less cheek. An animalistic quality. That's just my interpretation of my Cleopatra!

Don't ruin my image of Cleopatra. In order to cause so much stife she had to be more beautiful than this model.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/cleopatra/e...

What a piece of crap! The researchers at Cambridge should be absolutely and totally ashamed of themselved. This is a perfect example of the dangers of political correctness and multi-culturalism. It shows what can happen when supposed researchers start catering to Third World groups and ignoring the traditional Western values of historical accuracy and true empirical, scientific research.

Classical historians really know a great deal of Cleopatra's genealogy. She was a Ptolemy, descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals. When Alexander's empire collapsed, he took over Egypt and ended up as its Pharaoh. This act began the last Egyptian dynasty.

Though they ruled Egypt, the Ptolemies were a Macedonian dynasty. They intermarried with other Greek and Macedonian noble and royal families, many descended from Alexander's officers, as well. Due to a marriage with the Seleucid royal house in Syria, there was even some Persian blood in Cleopatra's lineage, as the first Seleucid king, Seleucus I, another of Alexander's generals, had married a Persian noblewoman, Apama.

What there was not in Cleopatra's bloodline was one single drop of Egyptian blood. There certainly was not black African blood as one would think from looking at this recreation. Though the Ptolomies adopted many Egyptian customs, including brother-sister marriage and the exaltation of themselves as living gods and goddesses, as that is what their Egyptian subjects demanded of them, they did not marry Egyptians. They were living God-Kings on Earth, and they only married their equals, and that meant other Hellenistic royals and nobles.

If you've ever been to Northern Greece and other areas where many of Alexander's officers and soldiers came from, you will know that there are people living there who are very light-skinned. It is not unusual to see men and women have blonde or red hair. Nor is it uncommon to see green or blue eyes. Due to her ancestry, there was a chance that Pharoah Cleopatra was even a light-skinned, blue-eyed blonde. There is no chance that she looked anything like this recreation.

Actually, Cleopatra was still in love with Julius Caesar even after his murder. Her kingdom was in trouble so she hooked up with his best friend, Marc Anthony, as she needed him first and foremost for protection and furthering the survival of her country. Although, she did have a love for Anthony, her heart still belonged to Caesar.

She had many enemies that wished to have all records and knowledge of her to be removed. This is why there is so little evidence left as to what she really looked like. Much of it was destroyed.

The Marc Anthony thing was blown out of proportion as this was an attack not only on Cleopatra but Julius Caesar's legacy as well. Marc Anthony and Cleopatra were romantically involved after Caesars death but Cleopatra was not in love with him to the same level or degree.

When Caesar joined with Cleopatra, their enemies also joined and increased in numbers. Their goal was to destroy and dismantle any all things that either of these two had or had done. Caesarion was later brutally murdered by Octavian as this was the final blow to extinguish what was left of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.

In spite of their enemies efforts, much of their legacy lives on and they remain being famous over 2000 years later.

The Marc Anthony and Cleopatra story is a love story told for the romantics but it is inaccurate. In time they will find Cleopatra's tomb and much will be revealed. Not only on how she actually looked but there will also be a great deal more on her history and the details there of.

I am not an expert, but all I have read is that she was a descendant of Alexander the great, she was 1/2 Greek. And Greeks back then were white. I think this picture is too African looking. There are Roman pictures of her and she looks more Jewish than African. This picture resembles Ramses family. I don't think she looked like this at all. But who I am I to say.

thats a long nose.

I'm a 3d modeler and thats not a very good 3d model in my opinion.