Since I've been seeing some confused people, here's something I googled, to explain why she isn't more tan, and also for the people who think she looks manly: "69 BCE: Cleopatra is born in Egypt. She is the seventh in the Ptolemy dynasty to bear the name Cleopatra, which means glory of the father. She is the second daughter of Ptolemy XII. She and the rest of the Ptolemys were of almost pure Macedonian Greek ancestry, possibly of some Iranian but no Egyptian ancestry." "Her coins minted in Egypt portrayed her as a masculine, with a hooked large nose. Historians believe that she intentionally portrayed herself with her father's strong jawline as a display of strength."
@Crystal Macintosh funny, the modern Greek woman has so many similar features to my sister, we are only 6% Greek tho but my first thought was that it looked like her xD
Cleopatra wasn't actually that beautiful it was her intellect and her character that won julius caeser and mark Anthony over. I wish people would talk about the kind of person she was than just how she looks.
Probably because this is not what that channel is about!!!!..... Have you ever given a second to figure out what this channel is about???.... Why am I asking that question??? Obviously you haven't!!!
A certain type of Greek face yes. We have diverse looks for a small nation. Though the Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt had Syrian blood in them as well. In fact Cleopatra was rather inbred.
@@Alexs.2599The Ptolemaic dynasty were 99% Greek from Makedonia. As for Syrian background, they weren't actually Syrian, they were Greeks from Greek kings, such as Antiochos the First, the Sotir, etc. Only Seleucus I (Nikator), (Greek nobleman from Makedonia northern Greece and general of Alexander the Great) married a non-Greek wife, the Persian noblewoman Apama. The rest were all Greek.
@@katerinapatiniotis5598 Antiochos was a Hellenized Syrian, not actually Greek. There's a difference between Hellenized people of the Near East and Greek Hellenes. The Ptolemy dynasty got their Greek ancestry from their founder and ancestor Ptolemy, who as we know was one of Alexandros' Greek Macedonian generals. By the time of Cleopatra those Greek genes were mixed with near eastern ancestry. There was still Greek there but a little more distant. I still consider her more or less Greek, but more outlier Greek mixed. Not 99% Greek at that point in history.
This is kinda creepy but it's exactly what the sculpture looks like. I died that u put even the sharpy eyeliner which she's famous for that.😂😂 make more like these.
Plutarch--a Greek writer and philosopher--wrote in his famous book, "Parallel Lives", that Cleopatra's beauty was not incomparable, or such as to strike those who saw her. So, she was attractive, but not strikingly beautiful.
She was very cute and fatal for men. Having big nose was beautiful back then. It was sign of leadership and novelty. Does big nose associate you with passionate and adventurous people? I like small lips, I find them delicate and intensive. Nowadays are beauty standards different and most people would find her even ugly, that is very sad.
"Very cute" is exactly right. Add to that her lively and vivacious intelligence and culture, and you have a totally irresistible woman. She was brilliant, and used her brilliance to keep her beloved Egypt safe from Roman power as long as she lived.
My grand grandma died at thr age of 115 too 😂 basically, my family lost counting after a certain period. So we don't really know if she was 112 or even 117 yo when she died
Sculptures don’t show the makeup though. I mean look at how makeup can transform someone. And this person was a queen with countless assistance. Not surprising she was able to make herself a 10
It's crazy that some people in the comments go so far as to deny the Macedonian origin of the Ptolemaic dynasty 😂Even their names are of Greek origin please 🤣🤦♂️
In ancient Rome, portraits of the ruling class were often based on classical Greek statues of gods and goddesses. They claimed to be living gods, so they took every opportunity to remind people of their divine right to rule - which was a particularly dicey subject for a woman claiming to be a king like Cleopatra. Aphrodite/Venus was a favorite topic for women, while male rulers often preferred Hercules (complete with leonine mane). Cleopatra was often represented by Venus (or Cleopatra as Isis as Venus - which probably made sense at the time). There is a wall painting in Pompeii that is strikingly similar to the "real life" Cleopatra from this video. Experts have identified this as a portrait of Cleopatra as Venus (it's in room 71 of the house of Marcus Fabius Rufus). The painting is thought to be based on a statue of Cleopatra as Isis/Venus from the Temple of Venus Genetrix which was dedicated by Julius Caesar the same year - 46 BC.
A very classic Greek look. I believe the artist captured what Cleopatra probably looked like in real life based on the historical descriptions of her appearance.
@123 123 but the video picturises like that and most of the Egyptian are black so there's no point in finding skin colour whether it's dusky or fair however everything that God creates are beautiful, black or white they both are stunning right?
This is odd, but... I think she looks like if Lin-manuel Miranda and Saoirse Ronan had a daughter together. Look them both up... I swear she looks like the 2 of them combined!
@@nadiashireensiddiqiNobody is quite sure of her exact eye or hair colour. She had pale olive skin, some say brown her others say dark red hair or Auburn. Hazel, green and blue eyes were most likely what she had as they are recessive traits and her family was highly incestuous.
No Elizabeth Taylor, but pretty! LOL. Seriously, I believe what some of the others have said, that it was a mixture of beauty, brains and charisma that made her so powerful.
As Cleopatra was primarily Greek and Macedonian with some Persian from a dynastic marriage, this is about the darkest she would have been. She may have been fairer due to the Macedonian blood from Northern Greece, and she could have even been fair-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed. As far as is known, she did not even have a single drop of native Egyptian blood. Having said that, she was a polymath who spoke many languages including Egyptian, being the only Ptolemy to do so, and she was devoted to Egyptian religion and culture, as well as that of Hellenistic Greece.
@L. M. I have seen both blondes and light-haired brunettes in Greece. Furthermore, the farther North one travels in Greece towards the area that was historically Macedonia whence the Ptolemies came, the more fair-skinned and fairer-haired people one sees.
@L. M. No, that is an old corroded statue made of bronze or something similar. Olive skinned Greeks were probably peasants, the nobility could range from fair to medium skin tones
Wow what's wrong with tattoos. You know tattoos and piercings originated from that time right? Tattoos and piercings have always been around. Go look it up
That was awesome! I have a coin with her profile on it and your image is more like I imagined she looked like! Most archeologists claim she wasn't very attractive but this image is not only quite lovely, but also striking and since all the Ptolemys were Macedonian, her green eyes may have been very accurate. Regardless, outstanding job!
Her eyes look like Elizabeth Taylor who played her character in the 1963 film. And if you compare some of the images of Taylor and this rendition ...they look eerily the same. Very striking !!!
That's a bit of a leap to go from matching features to sculptured Stone shapes to recreating a full countenance from a fleshless tendonless meatless bone structure.
Classical statues very often enlarge the eyes. It must be remembered that even though Roman statuary portraits are rightly prized for their realism, portraits of elite people were still to some degree or other idealized.
When making very large/tall statues, ancient Egyptians would slightly enlarge the upper body and heads (such as the colossal Rameses statues) so when looked at from the ground the perspective would be proper to those viewing the statue. R. A. Schwaller deLubicz explains this. ~JSV
@@jsv438 woah, that’s such a good info. I just flipped my phone and her whole face structure changed. Mainly as well the eyes looked smaller. This deftl needs to be considered. Thanks for sharing this. It almost seems like looking frontal at it gravity is missing. When flipping my phone Gravity appears. Love that as well about the logic of portraits. Where the painter needs to work with focus on gravity, because a portrait isn’t 3-dimensional.
She would have looked like a woman from the Mediterranean. A mix of eastern European and middle eastern. Looking at the shape of her eyes. If no one told me that this was a statue of Cleopatra, I would have thought this was a statue of a Greek person.
While there are some exaggerations of features, like bigger eyes, in general Roman busts were made to accurately portray someone's face. So while the statue, when it was painted, may have been idealized, you would clearly recognize it as Cleopatra.
when people say she wasnt beautiful, I tell them there is a reason why Clearpatra wrote the first book on Cosmetology. She was literally the first instamodel. By the way, Marcus Antonius and Guis Julius Caesar were the most powerful men in the world, they wouldnt take up with someone unless they were hot. They could have any woman, (or man) they wanted.
To some extent you are right. But believe me, Caesar and Antony wanted Egypt much more than any woman. Egyptian goods and treasures meant power in Rome and in the Mediterranean. That's what they wanted both.
@@trueromancat7978 hunny, they could have Egypt without Cleo. They could easily get rid of her. The case is, cleo wanted to keep her throne. And she used Caesar for that. Same later with Mark Anthony
@@playhouse2024_ Nailed it. She had enough power over both those men to play them for power. Beautiful? Yeah, not really. But very cute, and with a vivacious brilliance that you could not understand unless you actually met her in person.
Caesar could have easily taken Alexandria and made it an explicit Roman city state while he had his army occupying it... the problem was that even if he took it by force, having the Egyptians trying to revolt later would seem inevitable like what the samnites did and it would only drain his resources and international reputation (he was trying extremely hard for a kind of powerful but merciful vibe so he could get the people to accept him without too much resistance). Since Cleopatra owed Caesar big time for putting her back on the throne and ending the civil war, it was a far better strategy to put her in charge while making such a wealthy city amenable to himself
Even though she was not Egyptian, she was Mediterranean, and this does look like someone I could have met in that part of the world (from my experience with pics of Spanish and Italian people)!
@Crystal Macintosh Mm, that's not true though xd. Iberians for example are not nor have ever been Roman or Greek. It has nothing to do with that, just with being Mediterranean European 🙃
@32ndSystem .... Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait? Are you trying to say after the muslims conquered Greece for well over 800 years there wasn't any demographic change???....say it aint so!!!!!
@@arianam9977 iberia had a lot of arab and it is said negro was 1st used in Portugal to describe jews. Israel was a mixed semetic and hametic people . lots of hametic or aftican people originatrdd in the middle east and mixed hence the word arab . even egyptains there and israelites in Egypt so the saphardic look the darker skin came from black dna where as northern Mediterranean like Macedonia etc is a bit different
It's nice to see that you have envisioned this with here Hellenic ethnicity.... I remember when Gal Gadot was cast to play her people shouting that Cleopatra was black and all sorts of lies
gracefully unknown Queen Cleopatra is not European or African. She is pure Egyptian. Her grandfather, Ptolemy the First 300 years ago, became fully Egyptian and embraced the Egyptian religion in order to be the Pharaoh of Egypt.
Thank you for finally making a realistic image of Cleopatra! I keep seeing these “beautiful” images people make of her and can’t figure out why they don’t just follow the existing art. You’re the only one whose gotten those big round eyes of that sculpture. She’s pretty cute, but she’s no raving beauty. It was mainly her intellect that attracted Julius Caesar.
Based upon the ancient encaustic painting of Cleopatra found at Hadrian's villa in the 19th century and thought to be painted from life by a famous ancient Greek artist Cleopatra looked like Dorothy Lamour except with light hair and eyes.
I think people judge her looks from a coin and they think she looks like that I think she had that done for a reason I think she wanted the people to see her on that coin that It makes her feel more equal to a man and not some weak woman please don't take this to heart
Are you kidding me ? Cleopatra was beautiful. The Romans hated her for marrying Caesar and bore him a son, then got involved with their greatest General Marc Antony. Romans didn't want the world to know that their leaders fell for beautiful women from another nation if they wanted to rule. That's why they said Cleopatra was not beautiful. In my honest opinion, she looks like Deanna Troi from Star Trek. Cleopatra had the brains, the beauty, and the political acumen to entice powerful men like Julius Caesar.
For those of you arguing about her complexion, Cleopatra was Greek (which Greece is in Europe). How do some of you not know Greeks are white people? Have you been to Greece? They're white!
@@joeel-shazly8326 That's pure foolishness!!! It's like some people have no clue that the world isn't black or white. The ancient Chinese looked exactly like Chinese people today, you can even see it in the statues.
He actually looks like if someone distorted/squished a regular person's face to look like that! Lol. The perfect version would be... interesting. He might actually look normal, then!
@@sid-alitelab8958idk if black is the color black is black you mean dark skin I’m not sure how you say it in English people truly don’t know their fucking colors haha not talking about you
I honestly doubt she was white, I'm not sure why but most people assume others in egypt were white when meanwhile the statues over there has their noses and lips destroyed off. It makes me wonder why they really were, maybe it was because it was in Africa and some noticable features are the lips and noses are those from there.
@@kendal4452 although Egypt is in Africa, it passed through many civilizations hands during its ancient history, during the time of cleopatra, it was run essentially by the Greeks
Since I've been seeing some confused people, here's something I googled, to explain why she isn't more tan, and also for the people who think she looks manly:
"69 BCE: Cleopatra is born in Egypt. She is the seventh in the Ptolemy dynasty to bear the name Cleopatra, which means glory of the father. She is the second daughter of Ptolemy XII. She and the rest of the Ptolemys were of almost pure Macedonian Greek ancestry, possibly of some Iranian but no Egyptian ancestry."
"Her coins minted in Egypt portrayed her as a masculine, with a hooked large nose. Historians believe that she intentionally portrayed herself with her father's strong jawline as a display of strength."
Wow did u copy and past or did u do that on your own because if you did that on your own I'm proud of you
@@drmaine9452 it's copied and pasted, that's why they put quotation Mark's around it
@Crystal Macintosh funny, the modern Greek woman has so many similar features to my sister, we are only 6% Greek tho but my first thought was that it looked like her xD
Thank you!
@Crystal Macintosh 🙏🏾
Cleopatra wasn't actually that beautiful it was her intellect and her character that won julius caeser and mark Anthony over. I wish people would talk about the kind of person she was than just how she looks.
Brains > Beauty
Probably because this is not what that channel is about!!!!..... Have you ever given a second to figure out what this channel is about???.... Why am I asking that question??? Obviously you haven't!!!
@@australianhuntanstuff I wish I could dislike your comment more than once
Beauty standards are different back then 🤷🏻♀️
i read somewhere that it was her intellingence and charm that seduced leaders like Marc Anthony not necessarily her looks
"Beauty is temporary, intellect is eternal"
- Cleopatra probably
Actually, that was said by Ivanka Trump. Sorry to correct you, but I felt I had to.
Eternal
You are right. I did say that.
@@cadaverdog1424 Who stole from Alicia Machado who stole from someone else.
She stole it from Judge Judy who said : beauty fades, dumb is forever.
Jada Pinkett Smith probably should've done her research 😂
I came here after I saw that Netflix turned Cleopatra into a black woman 😂
Same 😂😂😂😂
Expected from american propaganda. The EU/Brussels should start to regulate stuff like that.
Aww she was
@@reneescott4500 😄
Cleopatra was Greek so she was white more white than this image from this video.
That's a Greek face if ever I saw one.
Yes it is. Definitely
Yes. It's a Greek face.
A certain type of Greek face yes. We have diverse looks for a small nation. Though the Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt had Syrian blood in them as well. In fact Cleopatra was rather inbred.
@@Alexs.2599The Ptolemaic dynasty were 99% Greek from Makedonia.
As for Syrian background, they weren't actually Syrian, they were Greeks from Greek kings, such as Antiochos the First, the Sotir, etc.
Only Seleucus I (Nikator), (Greek nobleman from Makedonia northern Greece and general of Alexander the Great) married a non-Greek wife, the Persian noblewoman Apama. The rest were all Greek.
@@katerinapatiniotis5598 Antiochos was a Hellenized Syrian, not actually Greek. There's a difference between Hellenized people of the Near East and Greek Hellenes. The Ptolemy dynasty got their Greek ancestry from their founder and ancestor Ptolemy, who as we know was one of Alexandros' Greek Macedonian generals. By the time of Cleopatra those Greek genes were mixed with near eastern ancestry. There was still Greek there but a little more distant. I still consider her more or less Greek, but more outlier Greek mixed. Not 99% Greek at that point in history.
This is kinda creepy but it's exactly what the sculpture looks like. I died that u put even the sharpy eyeliner which she's famous for that.😂😂 make more like these.
@@NunYaBiz1313 I mean the modern version of Cleopatra
How's it creepy, I think shes really pretty
Bella Knight ok
Her nose tho.. lol
@@DallasJayCook I don’t mind it
What if you took a Bob Ross painting and made it as realistic as an actual photograph?
Good idea!
@@potatosack7492 Thanks!
adam mac i wouldn’t know the difference honestly lmao, but good idea
@@what3137 😂 True, but thanks!
And any mistakes would become birds.
Am I the only one who finds cleopatra beautiful ?
Plutarch--a Greek writer and philosopher--wrote in his famous book, "Parallel Lives", that Cleopatra's beauty was not incomparable, or such as to strike those who saw her. So, she was attractive, but not strikingly beautiful.
well, i wished people were studying more because their stupidity is indeed incomparable and unbeatable
It was her vivacious brilliance and intelligence that made her strikingly beautiful. As the saying goes: Ya had to be there.
So she was average looking and that's fine. Hollywood has people brainwashed that every royal person is attractive. Look at prince Charles of Wales 😹
@@richardreinertson1335u dont need to look like model to catch people attention
Cleopetra is an example of it
I like to think that her beauty attracted men and her intellect kept them hooked.
This whole time I thought that statue was a boy .... I’ve been living a lie-
And you are still living a lie, they lied to everyone on earth, nothing they taught you is the truth.
Me too!!!
If you're not educating yourself, that's normal.
@@francinefreeman9472 just shut up
@@francinefreeman9472 Who?
It was not her beauty but her intelligence, political skills and extraordinary capacity to manipulate powerful men that made her successful.
That's what the Roman historians said.
I mean it makes sense, she probably had some centuries of in-breed ancestors, soo it's logical for her to not look good I think
Me la imaginaba diferente.
@@perlaperla3025 siempre he vivido facinada por su inteligencia
@@benedict6432 Spot on. Products of incest are said to have unpleasant bodies. Most notably the face.
She was very cute and fatal for men. Having big nose was beautiful back then. It was sign of leadership and novelty. Does big nose associate you with passionate and adventurous people? I like small lips, I find them delicate and intensive. Nowadays are beauty standards different and most people would find her even ugly, that is very sad.
Squidward reading this comment: 😌
I would have been beautiful back in the day 🤣
"Very cute" is exactly right. Add to that her lively and vivacious intelligence and culture, and you have a totally irresistible woman. She was brilliant, and used her brilliance to keep her beloved Egypt safe from Roman power as long as she lived.
Small lips are unappealing! They don’t kiss well.
@@taradivinelight9822
I would have to say , it would depend on whose lips they are , and the feeling behind them 😊
The afro centric people are gonna lose it on this one.
My grandmother had a cousin named Cleopatra. They called her Cleo and she lived to be 110 years old. Btw, love how you transformed the sculpture.
My grand grandma died at thr age of 115 too 😂 basically, my family lost counting after a certain period. So we don't really know if she was 112 or even 117 yo when she died
It looks "transgendered"..lol
By far the best and the most realistic face reconstruction of Cleopatra! Young beautiful intelligent charismatic..good job.
A lot of this is going off the accuracy of the sculpture, which is pretty dang cool.
Sculptures don’t show the makeup though. I mean look at how makeup can transform someone. And this person was a queen with countless assistance. Not surprising she was able to make herself a 10
@@cassanderrr How would you know if she wore makeup? You’re not a time traveller.
@@tubbyqueen She was egyptian 😒
@@tubbyqueen I'm sure a queen in any era had access to make-up, nice clothes, jewelry, perfume, etc.
A lot of it is still guesswork, though. The artist has no way of knowing what Cleo's actual hair and eye-color was since the statue doesn't show it.
It's crazy that some people in the comments go so far as to deny the Macedonian origin of the Ptolemaic dynasty 😂Even their names are of Greek origin please 🤣🤦♂️
I've been dead for 2000 yrs and I know that
Plus there was interbreeding.
Think Alexander ' the great' of Macedon had a sister named Cleopatra.
Yup. All for agenda.
@@emncaity "Agenda"? What you talking about?
She is actually pretty cute looking!!
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I need this and idk why
I know, it's annoying as fuck when TH-camrs dont respond to your comment
Who?
Kasean Gaming they may be doing something else ya know.
OMG YESS
Mostly literature of the era after her is basically "she was okay looking except her nose, but she was really smart" 😂
@Ice Favorito The eyes were made too big. They are disproportionate to the rest of the face. Needed to be downsized some.
@@LynxStarAuto I agree the well of the eyes were ballooned to cartoon level. The same with her lips.
People back then LIKED big, hooked noses. That was considered attractive, and they are my personal preference.
@Ice Favorito lol same. The eyes are creepy, irises too big or something but her nose looks like imo 😅
Yes, she was no Elizabeth Taylor 😹. Just an average looking royal member like prince Charles of Wales 😹. Being royalty =/= obscenely attractive
In ancient Rome, portraits of the ruling class were often based on classical Greek statues of gods and goddesses. They claimed to be living gods, so they took every opportunity to remind people of their divine right to rule - which was a particularly dicey subject for a woman claiming to be a king like Cleopatra. Aphrodite/Venus was a favorite topic for women, while male rulers often preferred Hercules (complete with leonine mane). Cleopatra was often represented by Venus (or Cleopatra as Isis as Venus - which probably made sense at the time). There is a wall painting in Pompeii that is strikingly similar to the "real life" Cleopatra from this video. Experts have identified this as a portrait of Cleopatra as Venus (it's in room 71 of the house of Marcus Fabius Rufus). The painting is thought to be based on a statue of Cleopatra as Isis/Venus from the Temple of Venus Genetrix which was dedicated by Julius Caesar the same year - 46 BC.
Absolutely YES. In fact, innorered to facts, if you see it ends to look like virgin Marie.
Is there any link of it?
@@playhouse2024_ Kind of hard to miss this one, since the painting is found even on her Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra#Paintings
Yawn. *fart.
@@jjnc69 indeed she looked like Virgin Mary in this painting. What a coincidence!
A very classic Greek look. I believe the artist captured what Cleopatra probably looked like in real life based on the historical descriptions of her appearance.
Agreed
@123 123 either are the same just a slight difference but here is white
@123 123 but they clearly not white not like this
And also people everywhere usually call them black not consider it as brown
@123 123 but the video picturises like that and most of the Egyptian are black so there's no point in finding skin colour whether it's dusky or fair however everything that God creates are beautiful, black or white they both are stunning right?
Digital Cleopatra is not only beautiful, but shows the character that made her famous.
Thought it was Julius Caesar
me too
The bust is rather masculine i should say.
M .Zuckerberg ,cloning ,reincarnation exist .
@Big Pec Nah really?
@@SirDankleberry i thought it's for power. 🤣
This is odd, but... I think she looks like if Lin-manuel Miranda and Saoirse Ronan had a daughter together. Look them both up... I swear she looks like the 2 of them combined!
Hamilton style Cleopatra musical confirmed
Oh my god
I see Elizabeth Taylor, what’s the evidence that her eyes were green?
@@nadiashireensiddiqiNobody is quite sure of her exact eye or hair colour. She had pale olive skin, some say brown her others say dark red hair or Auburn. Hazel, green and blue eyes were most likely what she had as they are recessive traits and her family was highly incestuous.
Hi, don't mind me. I am just a random comment wishing you are okay and are enjoying the day. Be happy, and remember to do that thing.
Thanks I needed that I got stood up by my boyfriend
Do what thing?
Come on man....
@@mariavictoriafeliciano712 Dump him. You can do better
@@sweett1996 Awe really?
She had a babyface 😂❤
No Elizabeth Taylor, but pretty! LOL. Seriously, I believe what some of the others have said, that it was a mixture of beauty, brains and charisma that made her so powerful.
As Cleopatra was primarily Greek and Macedonian with some Persian from a dynastic marriage, this is about the darkest she would have been. She may have been fairer due to the Macedonian blood from Northern Greece, and she could have even been fair-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed. As far as is known, she did not even have a single drop of native Egyptian blood. Having said that, she was a polymath who spoke many languages including Egyptian, being the only Ptolemy to do so, and she was devoted to Egyptian religion and culture, as well as that of Hellenistic Greece.
@L. M.
I have seen both blondes and light-haired brunettes in Greece. Furthermore, the farther North one travels in Greece towards the area that was historically Macedonia whence the Ptolemies came, the more fair-skinned and fairer-haired people one sees.
@L. M. Nope, Greeks were white
@L. M. Greeks were white buddy, just accept it. Maybe slightly tan in some cases.
@L. M. White skin, all that matters. I don't care about the rest of your terminology. Their skin colour was white. That's it.
@L. M. No, that is an old corroded statue made of bronze or something similar. Olive skinned Greeks were probably peasants, the nobility could range from fair to medium skin tones
Beautiful slim young lady with no tattoos........WOW unbelievable
Wow what's wrong with tattoos. You know tattoos and piercings originated from that time right? Tattoos and piercings have always been around. Go look it up
She was a macedonian greek....
That was awesome! I have a coin with her profile on it and your image is more like I imagined she looked like! Most archeologists claim she wasn't very attractive but this image is not only quite lovely, but also striking and since all the Ptolemys were Macedonian, her green eyes may have been very accurate. Regardless, outstanding job!
attractiveness is subjective, i think she’s stunning from what they think she looked like.
I agree
There was a comment above that said she made herself masculine on the coin to show off strength.
Why did you go so different on the hair? Hair is very important for likeness.
Cleopatra is beautiful. She isn't ONLY attractive but also pretty.
I agree, they gotta stop casting eurocentric women to play her roles tho lol.
The face that launched a thousand fotoshops
She was indeed beautiful❤
She had a strong personality. I’m sure yours is the best depiction! You followed the statue perfectly!
Her eyes look like Elizabeth Taylor who played her character in the 1963 film. And if you compare some of the images of Taylor and this rendition ...they look eerily the same. Very striking !!!
Liz Taylor had violet eyes
I bet you can do reconstruction of skulls from Jane and John Doe's too. I would like to see that.
You can with clay, reforming the muscular structures and skin
That's a bit of a leap to go from matching features to sculptured Stone shapes to recreating a full countenance from a fleshless tendonless meatless bone structure.
No guidelines for sagging, fat distribution, dimples, wrinkles, collagen and soft tissue would be all imagination
She wasn’t gorgeous, but she was cute. Her eyes are very pretty.
Classical statues very often enlarge the eyes. It must be remembered that even though Roman statuary portraits are rightly prized for their realism, portraits of elite people were still to some degree or other idealized.
Egyptians did have huge eyes it's not exaggerated
@@Fighter-k1x 1. Source please. 2. Cleopatra was ethnically Greek.
When making very large/tall statues, ancient Egyptians would slightly enlarge the upper body and heads (such as the colossal Rameses statues) so when looked at from the ground the perspective would be proper to those viewing the statue.
R. A. Schwaller deLubicz explains this.
~JSV
@@jsv438 woah, that’s such a good info. I just flipped my phone and her whole face structure changed. Mainly as well the eyes looked smaller. This deftl needs to be considered. Thanks for sharing this. It almost seems like looking frontal at it gravity is missing. When flipping my phone Gravity appears. Love that as well about the logic of portraits. Where the painter needs to work with focus on gravity, because a portrait isn’t 3-dimensional.
She would have looked like a woman from the Mediterranean. A mix of eastern European and middle eastern. Looking at the shape of her eyes. If no one told me that this was a statue of Cleopatra, I would have thought this was a statue of a Greek person.
well she was greek so
This is what she was sculpted like.. only her skull can give a perfect idea.
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@@InvincibleCosmicEnigma 😁💜💜
While there are some exaggerations of features, like bigger eyes, in general Roman busts were made to accurately portray someone's face. So while the statue, when it was painted, may have been idealized, you would clearly recognize it as Cleopatra.
Nice! Another history related "IRL" photoshop! I always find these incredibly fascinating!! Thanks, PS! Hope you're well!!
when people say she wasnt beautiful, I tell them there is a reason why Clearpatra wrote the first book on Cosmetology. She was literally the first instamodel. By the way, Marcus Antonius and Guis Julius Caesar were the most powerful men in the world, they wouldnt take up with someone unless they were hot. They could have any woman, (or man) they wanted.
To some extent you are right. But believe me, Caesar and Antony wanted Egypt much more than any woman. Egyptian goods and treasures meant power in Rome and in the Mediterranean. That's what they wanted both.
@@trueromancat7978 hunny, they could have Egypt without Cleo. They could easily get rid of her.
The case is, cleo wanted to keep her throne. And she used Caesar for that.
Same later with Mark Anthony
@@playhouse2024_ Nailed it. She had enough power over both those men to play them for power. Beautiful? Yeah, not really. But very cute, and with a vivacious brilliance that you could not understand unless you actually met her in person.
Caesar could have easily taken Alexandria and made it an explicit Roman city state while he had his army occupying it... the problem was that even if he took it by force, having the Egyptians trying to revolt later would seem inevitable like what the samnites did and it would only drain his resources and international reputation (he was trying extremely hard for a kind of powerful but merciful vibe so he could get the people to accept him without too much resistance). Since Cleopatra owed Caesar big time for putting her back on the throne and ending the civil war, it was a far better strategy to put her in charge while making such a wealthy city amenable to himself
The image has so much intelligence in it's eyes...I guess she did all she did as a combination of beauty, softness and intelligence
From several reconstructions I've seen, I'd say yours is probably, from historic descriptions and using the bust, the best one yet.
Even though she was not Egyptian, she was Mediterranean, and this does look like someone I could have met in that part of the world (from my experience with pics of Spanish and Italian people)!
She was genetically Greek.
@Crystal Macintosh Mm, that's not true though xd. Iberians for example are not nor have ever been Roman or Greek. It has nothing to do with that, just with being Mediterranean European 🙃
@32ndSystem .... Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait? Are you trying to say after the muslims conquered Greece for well over 800 years there wasn't any demographic change???....say it aint so!!!!!
Egypt was a lot more Mediterranean before the expansion of Islam.
@@arianam9977 iberia had a lot of arab and it is said negro was 1st used in Portugal to describe jews. Israel was a mixed semetic and hametic people . lots of hametic or aftican people originatrdd in the middle east and mixed hence the word arab . even egyptains there and israelites in Egypt so the saphardic look the darker skin came from black dna where as northern Mediterranean like Macedonia etc is a bit different
Remember that Cleopatra is the family Epitolomee, greek by origins. So her beauty´s pattern is the classic one.
Her nose is cute for me
It's nice to see that you have envisioned this with here Hellenic ethnicity.... I remember when Gal Gadot was cast to play her people shouting that Cleopatra was black and all sorts of lies
Based on this, the HBO series Rome had pretty accurate casting in Lyndsey Marshall.
What is with the neck tho lmao
ScoopOfButter yeah something off about the shadows there.
I love these, to be able to see how the historical people actually might have looked
Her Eyes beautiful
She was pretty, and smart.
Cleopatra looks like any other human being, and the media overly exaggerated her beauty, but her intellect is astonishing.
That eyeliner sees right to the depths of my soul
She’s beautiful
Fun fact: Cleopatra is greek originally not Egyptian
Not a Fun Fact: Everybody knows this.
*Macedonian
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Queen Cleopatra is not European or African. She is pure Egyptian. Her grandfather, Ptolemy the First 300 years ago, became fully Egyptian and embraced the Egyptian religion in order to be the Pharaoh of Egypt.
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Pure Egyptian 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬💪
Very interesting! 🔥👍
Thank you so much, this is incredibly brilliant work.
I did this trick in reverse for an album cover. Made myself a statue
She’s like one of those korean beauty ads in seoul
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Why does most peeps say shes negro?? She was Greek not African gud lord , READ A BOOK for once
She was soo beautiful 😻
Wouldn't she have a more olive to brown skin tone?
no, she was macedonian greek which would already make her pretty white and on top of that she was very, very, very inbred.
Not very attractive woman,but she knew the secret of seduction.
Still, she has smart eyes!
Thank you for finally making a realistic image of Cleopatra! I keep seeing these “beautiful” images people make of her and can’t figure out why they don’t just follow the existing art. You’re the only one whose gotten those big round eyes of that sculpture. She’s pretty cute, but she’s no raving beauty. It was mainly her intellect that attracted Julius Caesar.
Your comment is completely stupid. You never saw her in person to know how she looked
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder I see..
Surprisingly relevant today 😄
It is said that she wasn't pretty, but she was an interesting, clever and cultivated woman😊
The hair does not convince me, the rest yes
Cleopatra looks more like man
I wouldn't be surprised
Based upon the ancient encaustic painting of Cleopatra found at Hadrian's villa in the 19th century and thought to be painted from life by a famous ancient Greek artist Cleopatra looked like Dorothy Lamour except with light hair and eyes.
As I said, a face of greece and the balkans
She actually was Greek.
Shes got big eyes.., love it tho
Kinda scary looking 😉
She wasn't like that tho
@@ChristianDoretti ... I...Uhm... Ok 👌...
Sculptures are never 100 percent accurate. They deliberately made her eyes bigger
Anime
Cleopatra descends from the northern Greek Macedonian ptolemies so she wouldn't have looked typically Egyptian..
The historical sources I've read maintain that she had auburn hair.
I remember the same thing.
Elite was dying their hair auburn. Cleopatra did the same
I think she was pretty
I think people judge her looks from a coin and they think she looks like that I think she had that done for a reason I think she wanted the people to see her on that coin that It makes her feel more equal to a man and not some weak woman please don't take this to heart
Now make her come to life and blink at you with that new myheritage app. Lol
That sculpture of her sure looks quite masculine. I actually thought it was a male, had to do a double take at the title of this video.
For those who don't know, Cleopatra was one of the greatest seductress of all time.
Please do a “Is Cher PERFECT?”
Are you kidding me ? Cleopatra was beautiful. The Romans hated her for marrying Caesar and bore him a son, then got involved with their greatest General Marc Antony. Romans didn't want the world to know that their leaders fell for beautiful women from another nation if they wanted to rule. That's why they said Cleopatra was not beautiful. In my honest opinion, she looks like Deanna Troi from Star Trek. Cleopatra had the brains, the beauty, and the political acumen to entice powerful men like Julius Caesar.
For those of you arguing about her complexion, Cleopatra was Greek (which Greece is in Europe). How do some of you not know Greeks are white people? Have you been to Greece? They're white!
They assume the Chinese were black and the past
@@joeel-shazly8326 That's pure foolishness!!! It's like some people have no clue that the world isn't black or white. The ancient Chinese looked exactly like Chinese people today, you can even see it in the statues.
I'm gonna ask again: IS BIG ED PERFECT? it'll probably attract more viewers too, since your recent content has been more of older things.
He actually looks like if someone distorted/squished a regular person's face to look like that! Lol. The perfect version would be... interesting. He might actually look normal, then!
Im curious 😂
She scary AF
Wish I had your talent👌
Can you make Khmer greatest king, Jayavarman VII, looks in real? He is one of Khmer great kings who built Angkor Wat. It would be appreciated 🙏
Truthfully amazing. Thank you so much for sharing. Best regards from California.🙏
I'm pretty sure you messed up a bit on the cheeks. Her face on the statue looks a lot sharper and less pudgy.
But...but my grandma told me she was black.
no matter what they tell at school, cleopatra was black ! I told you that already !
Greeks are not black
@@sid-alitelab8958idk if black is the color black is black you mean dark skin I’m not sure how you say it in English people truly don’t know their fucking colors haha not talking about you
Cleopatra Ptolememy VII was Greek. @@sid-alitelab8958
@@sid-alitelab8958 Don't you know how to Research ? If Not ? Learn. If You Don't Educate Yourself to Research, You Deserve the False Here Says.
Great vid. I'd love to see you do a series on all the Roman Emperors 😃
if PENTATONIX had a BABY together...
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I love cleopatra!
Maaaaaaan I wish I knew how to draw like you in photoshop... you're an expert! Good job!
She appears to have Greek ancestors.
She does.
She was Greek !
She was Greek Macedonian. By the way, she was married to her brother.
some of yall forget Cleopatra was white and was known for her intelligent and not beauty
How could she be white and be from Egypt?
@@kendal4452 im pretty sure shes macedonian
I honestly doubt she was white, I'm not sure why but most people assume others in egypt were white when meanwhile the statues over there has their noses and lips destroyed off. It makes me wonder why they really were, maybe it was because it was in Africa and some noticable features are the lips and noses are those from there.
@@kendal4452 although Egypt is in Africa, it passed through many civilizations hands during its ancient history, during the time of cleopatra, it was run essentially by the Greeks
@@kendal4452 ...her family ruled Egypt but they were of Greek descent. It's an interesting family history. Definitely worth looking up and reviewing.