Egypt
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- Exhibition: Where's Cleo?
Archeaology Magazine (Mark Rose) Cleopatra’s reputation as a seducer of emperors—Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian (later Caesar Augustus)—and her suicide by snake bite have made her one of the ancient world’s most intriguing characters....
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Antony
Washington Post (By Jonathan Yardley) Cleopatra and Antony - Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World By Diana Preston Walker and Company More than two millennia after it took place, the story of Cleopatra has lost none of its grip on the world's...
- Two Fourth Century Coins Found In Sinai
Egypt Daily Star News Egyptian archaeologists have discovered two fourth-century gold coins dating back to the reign of Roman emperor Valens, the first such find in Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Sunday. The two coins were discovered...
- How The Battle Of Actium Changed The World
RedOrbit It was the pivotal moment in an ancient soap opera, one marked by intrigue, romance, betrayal and widespread consequence. The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. was an epic showdown that pitted Mark Antony and Cleopatra against spurned former ally...
- Book Reviews: Last Queen Of Egypt
Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, Profile Books Ltd.The Telegraph, UK (Review by Helen Brown) If the Emperor Augustus had been able to see into the future, and had a flick through The Daily Telegraph on February 15, 2007, he'd have been delighted...
Egypt
Ancient Battle of Actium forged coin found in UK
Daily Mail
A unique Roman coin found by a metal detector was made by an ancient ‘Del Boy’ forger who could not spell and did not know his emperors.
The silver denarius, an average day's pay for a Roman worker, was modelled on coins struck to commemorate the Battle of Actium of 31 BC.
The famous battle saw the combined forces of Roman General Mark Antony and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra defeated by Octavian, who went on to rule as Emperor Augustus.
The silver denarius was made 2,000 years ago but is a terrible fake, with spelling mistakes and even the wrong Emperor
Experts said it was made a few years after Actium but was a terrible fake, probably created from memory by a craftsman who was ‘barely literate’.
One face has a crocodile but it is facing the opposite way to the original.
Emperor Caesar is on the head side, when it should have been Augustus.
And the die cutter misspelled Egypt as Aegipto instead of the common spelling of the time, Aegypto or Aegvpto.
- Exhibition: Where's Cleo?
Archeaology Magazine (Mark Rose) Cleopatra’s reputation as a seducer of emperors—Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian (later Caesar Augustus)—and her suicide by snake bite have made her one of the ancient world’s most intriguing characters....
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Antony
Washington Post (By Jonathan Yardley) Cleopatra and Antony - Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World By Diana Preston Walker and Company More than two millennia after it took place, the story of Cleopatra has lost none of its grip on the world's...
- Two Fourth Century Coins Found In Sinai
Egypt Daily Star News Egyptian archaeologists have discovered two fourth-century gold coins dating back to the reign of Roman emperor Valens, the first such find in Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Sunday. The two coins were discovered...
- How The Battle Of Actium Changed The World
RedOrbit It was the pivotal moment in an ancient soap opera, one marked by intrigue, romance, betrayal and widespread consequence. The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. was an epic showdown that pitted Mark Antony and Cleopatra against spurned former ally...
- Book Reviews: Last Queen Of Egypt
Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, Profile Books Ltd.The Telegraph, UK (Review by Helen Brown) If the Emperor Augustus had been able to see into the future, and had a flick through The Daily Telegraph on February 15, 2007, he'd have been delighted...