Probably the donkey milk bath thing. I wasn't expecting that one and, although I have general knowledge about ancient Greco-Roman bathing habits and techniques (like use of sponges and the Roman heated thermae), that is one I had actually never heard of before. Thanks for sharing. In the future, if you ever do another video about the queen, consider covering the ancient artworks that depict her, such as her paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum.
@Tina Hey: are you out of your mind? Cleopatra was a (white) Macedonian Greek woman, whose ancestors came from southeastern Europe, as the video explains, but it's not just the video. It's any credible academic who says this, based entirely on historical records and archaeology. And the giant era of Egyptian history aligning with the Hellenistic period, when the Greeks conquered and colonized Egypt, establishing the Ptolemaic dynasty. It's depressing that roughly 90% of the comments in this video are about Cleo's skin color and not her military career, not her relationship with two of Rome's most powerful men in the 1st century BC, not her depictions in ancient works of art such as Roman sculpted busts and wall paintings, not her role as the living embodiment of Isis and her sponsorship of the Egyptian priesthood, or any other worthy topic. No. Instead your goofy ass busts out an irrelevant passage from the Bible that has virtually nothing to do with Cleopatra and in fact has nothing to do with race or skin color. It's literally a passage about whitewashing a fucking wall, i.e. making a wall look white, something ancient civilizations (Chinese included) did for aesthetic purposes. Why don't you explain to us, Tina Hey, a single thing you know about the Ptolemaic dynasty. Go on, tell us one single fact. No? You can't? You never learned about it? Then why the hell are you even commenting here? Go read a history book for once in your life and then get back to us.
Kleopatra wasn’t black. She was Macedonian-Greek mixed with Persian. And manipulating scripture won’t help you. As a matter of fact twisting the Bible makes you pathetic.
Cleopatra is well known today because of the gargantuan Augustan propaganda campaign waged against her, both before and after Octavian was named Augustus Caesar. Augustan-period Latin literature does a very fine job of slandering her but also turning her into a figure of epic melodrama. This was continued centuries later by William Shakspeare in his famous play "Antony and Cleopatra", which has perpetuated the image of Cleo we know today.
She was responsible for the downfall of her country as an independent entity because of her own ambition. She killed off her brothers and then backed the wrong horse in the Roman civil war, which lead the the complete annexation of Egypt by Augustus. Egypt wasn't independently ruled by Egyptians again for over a millennium. There is no spin here, she lost Egypt.
His name wasn't Confucius, it was Kung Fu'tze. Get over yourself. She was Macedonian Greek and Seleucid. Do your homework and stop trying to appropriate historical figures who manifestly are not African as being "black". It makes you appear racist and stupid.
What Cleopatra lacked in looks she made up for it in smarts, cunning, charm, stealth & wits these attributes were her greatest power & weapons. I'm certain even though Octavian hated her he secretly admired, respected & feared her as well what person wouldn't?
A few dynasties of Egyptian rule are completely african. Egypt became like old european monarchies with marriage alliànces to foreign states 'cept the foreigner moved into the new job as pharoah and dumped their old job as desert war chief ruler of 6 dunes and a dried up oasis.
QTee you wish. You know people are stupid when you have Black Studies professors telling lies that she was black. I guess when people have no impressive history they will try to hijack other people’s history.
@QTee Please educate yourself on history. Not that race even fucking matters in the first place, but Cleopatra was not black. At all. She was most likely tan, yes. But not black. Grab a history book, sit down with it for a while and then return.
@@strawberrygrimlin I think Hitler retreated with the top nazi brass to the centres of the Earth gaining power and technology and now are flying objects that we can't identify in our air spaces.
Cleopatra actually wasnt attactive. She wrapped herself in a rug and was smuggled into ceasar's living quarters in order to speak to him. Clearly beauty wasnt her greatest strength.
“Inbreeding as a competitive sport.” Yikes. One would think even the ancients would have noticed the horrific effects of inbreeding and taken steps to ensure a robust gene pool.
Charles Hamilton Well the royalties always did that for many reasons actually: to keep the crown in the family, the kingdom and their children were encouraged to love their sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts... some kings or emperors like the Ceasar also slept with their own mothers, Caligula for example was giving it to his mother in the barns one day and when they returned to the palace some soldiers observed that his mother had some sperm taints on her dress!
You also gotta keep in mind that this was 2000 years ago lol. Inbreeding actually wasn't as bad back then as now, genetically. And inbreeding today in certain countries is much worse than others, since the smaller gene-pool leads to various problems. Also, a lot of times, there were concubines and harems in royal families. To the extent that it was rare for complete brothers and sisters to breed. Usually cousins or half-siblings would produce far fewer problems... Honestly, it was so common for people to die young or die from random illnesses, that inbreeding really wasn't that big of a deal to them lmao. If you think about it, so many children died before they reached adolescence, that the ones who died from genetic defects would've just been lumped in with the ones that died from a fever or whatever.
Left out the part of why Julius Caesar initially listened to Cleopatra. Her husband/younger brother had his men kill Pompey The Great, after Julius Caesar defeated Pompey. He was pursuing him to Egypt, and wanted to pardon his former friend, to show he was the better man. But instead, assassins at the direction of her younger brother killed Pompey, and beheaded him, and presented it to Julius as a gift. Julius was livid and then met Cleopatra afterwards, and sided with her.
WTF?! You can't tell how a person actually looked like in ancient times with a coin. They had hardly any detail and most looked like they were made last minute
Aside from Cleopatra's numerous surviving Ptolemaic Greek coins from Alexandria, Egypt and other places, there are also several Roman marble sculptures of her, along with three frescoes, two of them from Pompeii, another from Herculaneum. The one from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus was painted while she was not only still alive, but living in Italy at Caesar's villa (not far from where he erected a statue of her as Venus Genetrix).
She is ugly in reality Even marrying your cousin will cause genetic disorders that makes your children look odd and abnormal Like autistic children Even they behave like normal people
River Smithe I was simply stating who I thought of when I thought of Egypt I named a person not a race I could care less what race he was what's that got to do with the price of tea in China nothing bc they are all dead so they are a dust race now lol
thank you for this well researched video!! not many people know how intelligent her majesty was. she was the first of the ptolemaic line to speak Egyptian. her beauty was her intelligence, not her physical body..
Guys Don't fight.. Cleopatra was a Greek woman who ruled Egypt in the empire of Alexander the Great.. Her skin was not black or white.. As we know Greek people since ancient times have Mediterranean and east/anatolian characteristics.. So they are something between white and black.. So Cleopatra as Greek woman had this special Greek color in her ski.. Simple
Greeks are southern Europeans like the Italians (and their ancient Roman forebears). Some had tanned skin, but these are all Caucasian people we are talking about. In either case you're wrong according to Roman artwork. For instance, paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum show her with light skin: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_and_Cupid_from_the_House_of_Marcus_Fabius_Rufus_at_Pompeii,_most_likely_a_depiction_of_Cleopatra_VII_(2).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retrato_femenino_(26771127162).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Wall_painting_from_the_House_of_Giuseppe_II,_Pompeii,_1st_century_AD,_death_of_Sophonisba,_but_more_likely_Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt_consuming_poison.jpg
Something between white and black is the mixed people. Greeks are southern Europeans, meaning they are white but different in characteristics from those in north europe.
@@ehz4641 In order to become officially Queen she was supposed to marry her brother and then rule Egypt together., but she wanted throne for herself at which point Cesar helped her get rid of him and inauguration followed afterwards.
She was not ethnically Egyptian, she was Greek.(Living in a place doesn't change your genetics) Egyptians are not nor were they ever Sub-Saharan Africans. Actual Egyptian are the Coptic people who are indigenous to that region of the world.
Even Coptic Egyptians come black because there were cross breeds between sub Saharan and Coptic Egyptians, like Cleopatra and her brother step , Coptic Egyptians come from the breed of cane's sister while the sub Saharan come from Abel's sister ... It's the same generation just different women, different Queens the fight between nefriteri and Imhotep's girl friend lmao , 🤣 fight of thrones, game of thrones 😂😅
Abbas Manaf...ALL ANCIENT HISTORIANS SAID EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK AND SO DO THE MUMMIES.ALL NATIVE AFRICANS CAME FROM THE SUB SAHARA. STOP TRYING TO MAKE TRUE AFRICANS OTHER THAN BLACK PEOPLE. THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS AINT IN AFRICA
@@matiusbond6052 There are plenty of west and central African kingdoms and cultures throughout history that you could go learn something about, but if you'd rather just be a KANG that's fine. At least KANGS will never fail to provide us with a good laugh now and then.
Cleopatra didn't prove a female can rule Egypt with prosperity. Her reign was the last one for a reason. if anything, Hatshepsut proved that a female can be a great pharaoh
Sam One But my queen Nefertiti was! Undoubtedly a far prettier woman. Very beautiful. And she loved a TRUE Egyptian man. Cleo was obsessed with Roman men well she was already a mutt much like a "Meghan Markle" of her time obsessed with European men. Comparing Cleopatra to Nefertiti is like comparing Liz Taylor to Dorothy Dandridge. Like comparing Beyonce to Meghan Markle. Like comparing Gabrielle Union to Mariah Carey.
Nefertiti_goddess Cleopatra was only “obsessed with Roman men” because she was trying to keep her country together. And the idea that women or men can only have relations within their own race is idiotic and ignorant. And no one is pure anything, we are all mixed with something.
Nefertiti likely wasn't native to Egypt. She was likely a princess of a Middle Eastern kingdom like Mitanni or Hittite! She was likely sent as a gift and her marriage political. Just like many royal consorts, a foreigner!
..so some say...some also say the Pyramids were tombs, the age of the Sphinx seems to be in question... can we trust jealous and racists historians to give truth..
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This is the image of Cleopatra used by Hollywood, although in reality she would rarely don the Egyptian vulture headdress, and only when conducting rituals at native Egyptian temples. Otherwise she presented herself as a Hellenistic Greek monarch with a royal diadem. This is true of her own damn coinage that she minted along with the vast majority of Roman sculptures and paintings depicting her as a typical (white) Greek monarch.
If we are including every Greek woman who ever lived and had the name Cleopatra (and not just queens of the Ptolemaic dynasty, of which there were seven), then there were a lot more than just nine Cleopatras. For instance, Alexander the Great's own sister was named Cleopatra. There was a "Cleopatra the Alchemist" who lived in Egypt during the 3rd century, but obviously long after the name "Cleopatra" had entered the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Cleopatra was white of European decent. My dad is from Macedonia and has very fair skin and had red hair when he was younger and I have relatives from Macedonia who are blonde with light eyes. She might not have been as "tan" as some people want to believe considering she was royalty and her gene pool was less tainted.
@Haneen Abdelaal: ancient Macedonians were Greeks (for the most part, at the very least their native language was a sibling one to Greek), although Bunny Official could be confusing them with the modern Slavs who now inhabit FYROM, not sure about that. In either case yes, Cleopatra was an ethnic Macedonian Greek and southeastern European in origin, descended from Ptolemy I Soter, general of Alexander the Great.
"" and her gene pool was less tainted." Dunno mate. Incest featured heavily among her and her rellies. I'd hardly call that a "less tainted" gene pool but a rather limited one.
There is some speculation by historians that Cleopatra’s mother may have been part ethnic Egyptian because of her facility with the Egyptian language. Of course this is just guesswork -almost nothing is known about her mother. Cleopatra had a natural talent for languages which could explain her fluency with Egyptian
All greeks can automatically identify how she was of greek descent, not only from attending history class where we were taught alexander the great history over and over again, but just by looking at her family tree where all of the members' names are greek with a meaning in greek. We never questioned the descent of the glorious pre-ptolemaic Pharaohs, whose names make absolutely no sense in greek, but even them were probably not of sub-saharan african descent, most likely north-african, akka medditerenean, looking the same as the average modern egyptian citizen. There's so much black history to be proud of, trying to claim european history that's been mentioned by thousands of historians (european and non european ones) throughout the years, long before there was this white-versus-black construct america invented in modern history, is plain silly. Open some history books guys
Cleopatra VII Philopator Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopátra Philopátōr (69 BC - 30 BC) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt .As a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy , a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. After the death of Cleopatra, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the second to last Hellenistic state and the age that had lasted since the reign of Alexander (336-323 BC) Her native language was Greek, and she was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language.Cleopatra could speak multiple languages by adulthood and was the first Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language. she also spoke Ethiopian, ,Hebrew , Arabic, the Syrian language Median, and Parthian, and she could apparently also speak Latin.
To everyone saying she’s white or black, she’s from the Ptolemaic dynasty a Hellenic line, the last dynasty of kemet ( Greek, she was early Greek ) please do research and even though she may be “ white “ she is still our african Queen, beautiful and charismatic, africa has many different colours and shades don’t get pigment take away your history.
You are completely redicoulous !!!! that's like saying someone from Canada taking relationship credits to Inca kings and Queens. Just because they are I. same continent, America. Same difference ! Stop trying to feed off somebody else's historical fame and make one for yourself !
footpuppy100 she was born in Egypt? Her family had been there for hundreds of years I didn’t say u credit them for building the pyramids I’m saying I credit them as African kings and queen who brought a new culture to the region and Alexander didn’t conquer independent Egypt, kemet had long died before his generals took over.
+Gameboy Hotline yessss, realize this, just because somebody else has done great things, it doesn't make your or anyone else great just because your are from same country. That was the Arian philosophy. Hitler, built on that. By the way, just like Cleopatra wasn't totally Egyptian, but early Greek. Hitler was not German. he was born Austrian. Called themselves Egyptian and German respectively through naturalization.
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Mustafa المحارب النوبي They didn't. They respected the Egyptian ways, religions, traditions, etc. They actually got along nicely, they loved Egypt and Egypt loved them, for the first time in centuries Egypt was back. Even though Cleopatra herself, was the first of the Ptolemaic dynasty to learn the Egyptian language, embrace the culture, and associate herself with goddess Isis. Romans however did destroy Egypt a bit, but not as much as the Persians did a few hundred years later, and after the Arabs invaded and forced their traditions, their religion, their language, Egypt pretty much became Arab as you see it today where they're all Islamic and speak Arabic. That destroyed Egypt more, IMO because that's when they lost their own identity, culture, gods/goddesses, and their own language. Egyptian culture almost was dead, lost, and forgotten until around the late 1800s-early 1900s when archaeologists started exploring and finding tombs and artifacts.
When I think of Nefertiti I think of Iman from "Remember the Time" video I think that's as close to what Nefertiti looked like in life & like Cleopatra she was a smart woman too only she had looks to match.
Queen Nefertiti is known for her beauty but she's also known as the widow of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who continued for a short time his legacy of monotheistic worship before the polytheistic Egyptian religion was restored, following her death. For that reason many artworks depicting her and her husband were defaced and destroyed.
As well as Africans aren’t “BLACK.” They are African. The black and white term is a label based on skin color. It’s a divisive label that makes no sense at all. Most people are of multiple ethnicities. Also many middle eastern people have the same skin tone as some Japanese people or Central African people. In addition, many celebs that are thought to be “white,” have “black” parents. Race labels are pointless.
@Mila B: regardless of all of that, Cleopatra's only known ethnic heritage was Macedonian Greek by virtue of belonging to the Ptolemaic dynasty and if it weren't for her distant Sogdian Iranian ancestor Queen Apama of the Seleucid dynasty, she would be entirely of European ancestry. As far as we know she had no native Egyptian or other African blood in her. Ancient paintings, coins, and statues show a Greek Caucasian woman.
Actually, you're wrong and oversimplifying a region. Egypt was a trading center much like a modern city. There were definitely "Black" Egyptians. That's like saying because America is mostly white now that Americans were not "red" or whatever. It's called imperialism, capitalism, and migration.
Eric Connor I don’t disagree with you. My comment was to address Cleopatra being the current race label of “white” or “black.” She may not have had any African ancestry. Regardless, she was not “white” and she was not “black.” Those labels make absolutely no sense and have no true reasoning other than what someone looks like. And, even then, it’s wrong most of the time...if DNA were to play a part in what someone’s make up was.
This is interesting. I never heard a chance to learn this type of history. I had a really crappy history teacher who barely taught at all. And that was a "hit and miss" course of American History.🤷
I love Cleopatra! Thanks! The Cleopatra Exhibit, at the Franklin Institute, a few years ago, was absolutely incredible!! Pieces of her jewelry, 12 foot statues of her, & Marc Antony, so much!! The Narrator had , to me, the perfect voice for Cleopatra! She was a BRILLIANT, POWERFUL WOMAN, way ahead of her time! And I was shocked to find out she was Greek! Amazing!! I learned so much at the Exhibit, & you added more! Thank you!!
T R U T H Grecians are Of Euro Diaspora but that doesn’t mean she’s pale. Caucasians blister and burn in the sun after a few hours. Rethink your statement about how pale you think the Queen was.
T R U T H bitch what culture? Lmao one of how many people in your population. It’s not just about you, congrats on your tunnel vision. I’m educated in anthropology world history and costume design. If you think me fact checking to your blind ass is Stealing you definitely need to re-evaluate you’re whole way of thinking😂 Melanin is where you came from it’s easy to deny some information that you lack in a TH-cam comment when I’ve received books from My Irish Professor who’s went on multiple excavations in the last two decades👀😄 I’ve touched human bones that were over hundreds of years old in my labs. Shut the fuck up educate yourself before you spew No’s everywhere 😂😂🤣
And most ancient Egyptians would have said: Aset, Ausar, Heru, Harakhte, Heru'wer, Har-se-Aset (Harsesis)... I think you get the idea. Egyptology is a fascinating field of study. Give it a try sometime. The ancient Egyptians were, over the thousands of years of their recorded histories, several cultures living together. Sometimes they sought for Ma'at (truth), and sometimes not, much like humanity in this age.
All these Black people actually think that Northern Africans of the Roman Age world were Ethnically Sub saharan african? You have to be Joking - Most of the Mediterannian rulers were of Greek DNA due to Alexander the Great - Heck Alexandria - One of the biggest cities in Egypt was built and named for Alexander the Great - A GREEK
Love that Cleopatra is so educated. Always liked her and love Egyptian culture. And phrase "Who wouldn't be enamoured when their date shows up on a perfumed barge" is so funny lol 😃 and "Daily donkey milk bath" lol lol
The Greek empire known as the Ptolemy Dynasty ruled Egypt for 300+ years. Then the Roman Empire ruled Egypt for 700+ years. Ancient Egypt was ruled by white-Europeans for 1000+ years.
#1. That she was the first Egyptian pharaoh who could actually speak the Egyptian language. Previous Egyptian leaders spoke Greek, just like most of the Romans did during their day-to-day work at this time. How do you think that SHE and Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, various Roman Senators and etc. spoke to each other about this and that? But she choose the wrong horse at the end.. Just like she killed her sister and brother before her . (" WOW Augustus wins it! Down the stretch he comes. Miles ahead. What a finish! Yes Folk's we're gonna remember this one a long time.." Caesar, caesar, caesar!
I'm Egyptian, A COPTIC CHRISTIAN EGYPTIAN, I shout that out loud because we are the most pure blooded Egyptians out there and that's not only my opinion that's what Egyptologists, Historians and Scientists also agreed on , and I tell you that every word that Bassem Youssef said is right and I totally agree with him. Yes Egypt had lots of mixed cultures throughout its history like for example: Greeks, Romans and Arabs, but the Egyptian blood didn't mix and change that much and that's because for centuries we Egyptians had a golden tradition rule to marry our cousins, and that tradition is still present until now especially in Upper Egypt(from Assiut to Aswan), Although that tradition seems silly and bad from a scientific biological point of view, but that doesn't matter, silly or not we kept that tradition of marrying our cousins for centuries and that helped us to preserve our pure Egyptian blood not mixed as long as we could, and the result is what you see now and that is Modern Egyptians looks typical to their Ancient Egyptian Ancestors, just look at my skin color and Bassem Youssef's skin color we are almost the same although he is a Muslim who was born and lived in Cairo and I am a Coptic Christian who was born and lived in Luxor and there is almost a 1000 km distance between us, doesn't that tell you a thing or two about who Ancient Egyptians were and what they looked like? With all due respect for all the Black people and all the other ethnicities out there, but we Egyptians are special very special, WE ARE NOT Black or White or Yellow, Not Europeans or Africans or Asians, Not Assyrians or Persians or Israelites or Nubians or Greeks or Romans or Arabs or French or Italians or Germans or British or Turkish or Ukrainians, Not Middle Easterners or Caucasians or Mediterraneans or Levants or Amazigh or Berbers or even North Africans. WE ARE EGYPTIANS, WE ARE VERY UNIQUE!
Ra Ra Cleopatra. I like how you involved horrible histories in this lol. Nice nostalgia lol. Of course i knew this already, if i used to watch horrible histories as a kid then i'd probably research more on it lol.
Why are people on this video accusing Black Americans of thinking Cleopatra is black? There are many people who question her racial and ethic background. I personally am not in a rush to claim the queen that failed. For the record there were other great queens that came before her and Hatshephut.
Be who wants a woman who is the product of 300 years of incest, murders her own relatives for power, marries her brother, then kills him. Then seduces one man after the other have children by them. What African American would want that filth as their ancestry.
She killed only one relative - her sister. And if she didn't, her sister would have killed her first. She constantly plotted against her. Her brother drowned in the river, when he was chased by Caesar's army. And why is that so horrible to seduce men in order to have heirs? Would it be better if her male relatives sold her in marriage, as was customary in the time? And men that she 'seduced' had dozens of mistresses themselves. So it's the question who seduced whom there. She lost because anyone would have lost to August, the most brilliant politician in Roman history.
People it's a fact that Cleopatra was not African in ethnicity. She was of Greek descent. Please look up the facts before you start crying"whitewashing history". Her lineage is Greek lol just look at the name! Also every ethnicity has a culture and history to it; whether Black, White, Asian, Polynesian and everything else on between. Stop being hateful, ignorant, small minded people and grow up. Cleopatra's ethnicity doesn't change the fact that she was a powerful woman. It's history so move on and do your research. Thank you for being understanding and acting like grownups 😃
I don't even know why I read the comments on here because people act so special on her not saying anyone is special....just acting like it. People turn one little thing on a video and try to make some kind of racist thing. Y'all need to stop..do your own research and dna studies and all that. Most people have mixed with other races and have kids with different skin tones due to those things. So what if she may be a little black or white or whatever she has in her. The important thing is that she ince ruled in eygpt. Not all of them obliviously we're the same. Other types of people have settled through out history as well. When I think of eygpt, I don't think of black or white people but very tanned people. But I know there has always been a mixture of poeple there through out history. Get over yourselves and stop complaining about everything.
LOL. Why are you assuming Cleopatra VII Philopator was a native Egyptian or an indigenous African of any kind? She was an ethnic Macedonian Greek of European origin, she and her Ptolemaic ancestors descending from Ptolemy I Soter, a general of Alexander the Great (who conquered Achaemenid Persian Egypt in the 4th century BC). Cleopatra was also culturally Greek, spoke Greek, and ruled Egypt from Alexandria, a Greek city-state. Sounds to me like you didn't know any of that, given your vague speech about tanned people. Cleopatra and her entire royal family were white colonizers. This is how the contemporary ancient Romans painted her, in frescoes discovered from the archaeological sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii (anyone with a functioning brain and pair of eyes can decipher that she is a light-skinned Caucasian in these depictions): commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_and_Cupid_from_the_House_of_Marcus_Fabius_Rufus_at_Pompeii,_most_likely_a_depiction_of_Cleopatra_VII_(2).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Wall_painting_from_the_House_of_Giuseppe_II,_Pompeii,_1st_century_AD,_death_of_Sophonisba,_but_more_likely_Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt_consuming_poison.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retrato_femenino_(26771127162).jpg
Eric Connor stop going through every comment its really sad this lady tried to be a neutral as possible but you still had to try « educate » her chill man
It means "Glory to the father" in Greek. The name Cleopatra predated the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties of the Hellenistic period. It was the name of Alexander the Great's sister as well as a princess in Greek mythology, Cleopatra Alcyone, the wife of Meleager.
Arsinoë wasn't a harmless lily either. She tried to seize power for herself and had herself proclaimed Queen when Achillas tried to trap Caesar in Alexandria and in the process, Cleopatra.
Jachimma Her Father was Greek part of the Ptolomy Dynasty. The only way she could have been anything other than Greek would have been if she was an offspring of the harem but thats unlikely becuase of the Dynasty trying to keep bloodlines "pure." Much like she married her brother.
+Jachimma Kleopatra’s mother was the sister or niece of her father. There are no finds suggesting she was African. And don’t bother bringing up those remains in Ephesus which are not even proven nor confirmed to be those of anyone related to Kleopatra.
Problem is not that Cleopaatra was black or white but as soon as it is mentioned that she greek ancestory , whites automatically put britissh (or northern european woman) as cleaopatra . Its hikacking of Greece , British has actually stolen greece history and made it their own .
I could do without the constant drive of unwanted music grinding in the background, in attempt to make the video information seem exciting. Not a future subscriber!
Correct. I too am Egyptian and this is why it is very important for people to do genetic research before assuming that a culture is being whitewashed. Egyptians are simply Egyptians. And back then they married other Superior leaders to secure their position and station. Egypt is not even all just sand like how Hollywood advertises. Egypt actually has cities and clubs just like Miami. The only reason why Egypt has poor representation is because they have very strict rules and laws on filming over there because if the cops e with a camera they think that you have all this money and they will try to take the money from you. Like they would charge you for photos and video. You can get away with your phone camera however.
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What's the most fascinating thing you learned about Cleopatra?
Probably the donkey milk bath thing. I wasn't expecting that one and, although I have general knowledge about ancient Greco-Roman bathing habits and techniques (like use of sponges and the Roman heated thermae), that is one I had actually never heard of before. Thanks for sharing. In the future, if you ever do another video about the queen, consider covering the ancient artworks that depict her, such as her paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum.
@Tina Hey: are you out of your mind? Cleopatra was a (white) Macedonian Greek woman, whose ancestors came from southeastern Europe, as the video explains, but it's not just the video. It's any credible academic who says this, based entirely on historical records and archaeology. And the giant era of Egyptian history aligning with the Hellenistic period, when the Greeks conquered and colonized Egypt, establishing the Ptolemaic dynasty.
It's depressing that roughly 90% of the comments in this video are about Cleo's skin color and not her military career, not her relationship with two of Rome's most powerful men in the 1st century BC, not her depictions in ancient works of art such as Roman sculpted busts and wall paintings, not her role as the living embodiment of Isis and her sponsorship of the Egyptian priesthood, or any other worthy topic.
No. Instead your goofy ass busts out an irrelevant passage from the Bible that has virtually nothing to do with Cleopatra and in fact has nothing to do with race or skin color. It's literally a passage about whitewashing a fucking wall, i.e. making a wall look white, something ancient civilizations (Chinese included) did for aesthetic purposes. Why don't you explain to us, Tina Hey, a single thing you know about the Ptolemaic dynasty. Go on, tell us one single fact. No? You can't? You never learned about it? Then why the hell are you even commenting here? Go read a history book for once in your life and then get back to us.
Kleopatra wasn’t black. She was Macedonian-Greek mixed with Persian. And manipulating scripture won’t help you. As a matter of fact twisting the Bible makes you pathetic.
nothing
Her and Amenhotep IV were wiped from the temple of Abydos (sp?) that chronicled all the Pharaohs.
3:31 "she spoke 9 languages" throws up an American flag, A Canadian flag and an English flag...I bet she spoke Australian too
She also spoke Mexican.
Australia doesnt have a language- Nor does Canda
@@iroaringii..4982 Aboriginal!
@@iroaringii..4982 have you heard a dream time stories before they speak aboriginal most of the time while telling them
@@iroaringii..4982 damn you're slow
Cleopatra was truly a queen.. She got everyone even after her death warped around her finger...
Suha Nafsi Cleopatra was a jazz singer or was that Cleo lane. Memo I must stop smoking that wacky backy
Bill Gowland I don't know what are you talking about.
@Suha Nafsi: Mr. Gowland makes joke, hokay?
Cleopatra is well known today because of the gargantuan Augustan propaganda campaign waged against her, both before and after Octavian was named Augustus Caesar. Augustan-period Latin literature does a very fine job of slandering her but also turning her into a figure of epic melodrama. This was continued centuries later by William Shakspeare in his famous play "Antony and Cleopatra", which has perpetuated the image of Cleo we know today.
She was responsible for the downfall of her country as an independent entity because of her own ambition. She killed off her brothers and then backed the wrong horse in the Roman civil war, which lead the the complete annexation of Egypt by Augustus. Egypt wasn't independently ruled by Egyptians again for over a millennium. There is no spin here, she lost Egypt.
Even the name Cleopatra is Greek. It means "Glory of my father".
Lisa Heisey My son's name is Greek too, Adonis but he's of African descent same as Cleopatra.
His name wasn't Confucius, it was Kung Fu'tze. Get over yourself. She was Macedonian Greek and Seleucid. Do your homework and stop trying to appropriate historical figures who manifestly are not African as being "black". It makes you appear racist and stupid.
Egyptians were black but when Alexander the great took over of course Cleopatra was probably Greek mixed with African since she lived in that era
+latoya ingram No she wasn’t.
+Ash ley Living in Africa doesn’t make you black nor mixed with African. Kleopatra was Macedonian-Greek mixed with Persian.
What Cleopatra lacked in looks she made up for it in smarts, cunning, charm, stealth & wits these attributes were her greatest power & weapons. I'm certain even though Octavian hated her he secretly admired, respected & feared her as well what person wouldn't?
YES! Thanks for pointing out that just because she ruled Egypt, doesn't mean she WAS Egyptian!
A few dynasties of Egyptian rule are completely african. Egypt became like old european monarchies with marriage alliànces to foreign states 'cept the foreigner moved into the new job as pharoah and dumped their old job as desert war chief ruler of 6 dunes and a dried up oasis.
QTee you wish. You know people are stupid when you have Black Studies professors telling lies that she was black. I guess when people have no impressive history they will try to hijack other people’s history.
@QTee Please educate yourself on history. Not that race even fucking matters in the first place, but Cleopatra was not black. At all. She was most likely tan, yes. But not black. Grab a history book, sit down with it for a while and then return.
@QTee Sorry history proved SHE was of mix GREEK bloodine
Oh that made sense lol
it wasn’t her looks that made her so desirable, it was her great intelligence
I don't buy it lol
Being rich and powerful didn't hurt, either.
@Vlad Dracula
Of course you don't😒
But let Cleopatra be a man tho
@@strawberrygrimlin I think Hitler retreated with the top nazi brass to the centres of the Earth gaining power and technology and now are flying objects that we can't identify in our air spaces.
Cleopatra actually wasnt attactive. She wrapped herself in a rug and was smuggled into ceasar's living quarters in order to speak to him. Clearly beauty wasnt her greatest strength.
The first famous Egyptian name that comes to my mind is actually Nefertiti.
The iron queen hatshepsut
and queen ahmose nefertari
And Kleopatra isn't even an Egyptian name
Nefertiti was beautiful!
Ramses
Samee
No one:
Not even a single soul:
Shawn and Camila: 4:20
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They kiss like fish🤣
I knew pretty much everything mentioned already. I knew my childhood obsession with ancient history would come in handy.
Maddy Lee It was fun, eh?
Maddy Lee When I was a kid I was obsessed with Henry viii and Elizabeth I and Mary I (bloody M) and the princes in the tower mystery.
yeah, things you didnt know if you live in a cave.
Same!!! Childhood spent studying ancient civilizations well spent!
Maddy Lee ha same
Cleopatra is like that one classmate you ask for answers to cheat exam papers
But she'll tell you wrong answers so that you'll fail badly
Before Cleopatra had died, she knew exactly that she had created history herself.
Give someone an inch and they think they're a ruler....
ebayerr In metric, please! I'm Canadian!
Good one
😂😂😂😂
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick : Oh well
Human tendency of thinking that they know it all
“Inbreeding as a competitive sport.” Yikes. One would think even the ancients would have noticed the horrific effects of inbreeding and taken steps to ensure a robust gene pool.
Charles Hamilton Well the royalties always did that for many reasons actually: to keep the crown in the family, the kingdom and their children were encouraged to love their sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts... some kings or emperors like the Ceasar also slept with their own mothers, Caligula for example was giving it to his mother in the barns one day and when they returned to the palace some soldiers observed that his mother had some sperm taints on her dress!
the royal family
You also gotta keep in mind that this was 2000 years ago lol. Inbreeding actually wasn't as bad back then as now, genetically. And inbreeding today in certain countries is much worse than others, since the smaller gene-pool leads to various problems. Also, a lot of times, there were concubines and harems in royal families. To the extent that it was rare for complete brothers and sisters to breed. Usually cousins or half-siblings would produce far fewer problems... Honestly, it was so common for people to die young or die from random illnesses, that inbreeding really wasn't that big of a deal to them lmao. If you think about it, so many children died before they reached adolescence, that the ones who died from genetic defects would've just been lumped in with the ones that died from a fever or whatever.
Charles Hamilton you can see the effects of inbreeding today in many muslim populations.
Emilian Doesn't matter WHY it was done, its still disgusting
Left out the part of why Julius Caesar initially listened to Cleopatra. Her husband/younger brother had his men kill Pompey The Great, after Julius Caesar defeated Pompey. He was pursuing him to Egypt, and wanted to pardon his former friend, to show he was the better man. But instead, assassins at the direction of her younger brother killed Pompey, and beheaded him, and presented it to Julius as a gift. Julius was livid and then met Cleopatra afterwards, and sided with her.
WTF?! You can't tell how a person actually looked like in ancient times with a coin. They had hardly any detail and most looked like they were made last minute
Aside from Cleopatra's numerous surviving Ptolemaic Greek coins from Alexandria, Egypt and other places, there are also several Roman marble sculptures of her, along with three frescoes, two of them from Pompeii, another from Herculaneum. The one from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus was painted while she was not only still alive, but living in Italy at Caesar's villa (not far from where he erected a statue of her as Venus Genetrix).
@Strainul Misterios she may have been been overweight also
She is ugly in reality
Even marrying your cousin will cause genetic disorders that makes your children look odd and abnormal
Like autistic children
Even they behave like normal people
@@ericconnor8251 I know first hand what desert people look like
A big hook nose gives you a hint. And there are head bust in Rome of her also.
gotta love the thousands of "historians" in the comments and trying to rewrite history. 🤷♀️😒
Omg shut up 😂
@@DannyAscencion seems to me that the video is trying to rewrite history
How are they rewriting history exactly?
@@ericconnor8251 I think the most egregious were those trying to call Nefertiti a "Pharaoh".
"nasty Lannister queens" lmao
k a y l e e 😂
Also Deny and Jon Snow❤️😹
k a y l e e Nasty is right how are you doing today Kaylee?
i'm doing fabulously today, thank you. how are you doing??
k a y l e e In the Middle East Kaylee some Arabs are allowed to marry there first cousin's in order to keep the. royal fortune in the family.
Wow They Actually Used
Assassin's Creed Origins 😁😁😁
Ramses is who I think of when I think of Egypt
Night Star Yea them and Nefertiti.
Night Star He's also European. Red hair, white skin.
River Smithe I was simply stating who I thought of when I thought of Egypt I named a person not a race I could care less what race he was what's that got to do with the price of tea in China nothing bc they are all dead so they are a dust race now lol
He was a red head
@@ryanjared6935 he is a dead head lol
Can confirm , my beauty was harmless
thank you for this well researched video!! not many people know how intelligent her majesty was. she was the first of the ptolemaic line to speak Egyptian. her beauty was her intelligence, not her physical body..
We are closer in time to cleopatra then she is to the creation of the pyramids 🤔
Kin b did they sacrifice people on top of the pyramids
Woah
Native Chique no thats the aztecs ur thinking of.
pyramids are bloody overrated arent they just tombs built by slaves lol
Guys Don't fight.. Cleopatra was a Greek woman who ruled Egypt in the empire of Alexander the Great.. Her skin was not black or white.. As we know Greek people since ancient times have Mediterranean and east/anatolian characteristics.. So they are something between white and black.. So Cleopatra as Greek woman had this special Greek color in her ski.. Simple
Greeks are southern Europeans like the Italians (and their ancient Roman forebears). Some had tanned skin, but these are all Caucasian people we are talking about. In either case you're wrong according to Roman artwork. For instance, paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum show her with light skin: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_and_Cupid_from_the_House_of_Marcus_Fabius_Rufus_at_Pompeii,_most_likely_a_depiction_of_Cleopatra_VII_(2).jpg
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Something between white and black is the mixed people. Greeks are southern Europeans, meaning they are white but different in characteristics from those in north europe.
Cleopatra was 18 years old when she met Cesar and soon became a Queen of Egypt!!
OH,JESUS!
She was basically already a queen she just didn’t like co ruling it with her brother
@@ehz4641 In order to become officially Queen she was supposed to marry her brother and then rule Egypt together., but she wanted throne for herself at which point Cesar helped her get rid of him and inauguration followed afterwards.
The mystery of cleopatra is still a mystery to this day!
Not really
Well sounds fairy tales to me.
She was not ethnically Egyptian, she was Greek.(Living in a place doesn't change your genetics)
Egyptians are not nor were they ever Sub-Saharan Africans. Actual Egyptian are the Coptic people who are indigenous to that region of the world.
Even Coptic Egyptians come black because there were cross breeds between sub Saharan and Coptic Egyptians, like Cleopatra and her brother step , Coptic Egyptians come from the breed of cane's sister while the sub Saharan come from Abel's sister ... It's the same generation just different women, different Queens the fight between nefriteri and Imhotep's girl friend lmao , 🤣 fight of thrones, game of thrones 😂😅
@@zainaraza9585 What?
Abbas Manaf...ALL ANCIENT HISTORIANS SAID EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK AND SO DO THE MUMMIES.ALL NATIVE AFRICANS CAME FROM THE SUB SAHARA. STOP TRYING TO MAKE TRUE AFRICANS OTHER THAN BLACK PEOPLE. THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS AINT IN AFRICA
@@matiusbond6052 There are plenty of west and central African kingdoms and cultures throughout
history that you could go learn something about, but if you'd rather just be a KANG that's fine. At least KANGS will never fail to provide us with a good laugh now and then.
@@zainaraza9585 cleopatra was . And never will be black ,
if someone asked me who way the first female pharaoh I would so Hatshepsut
Agreed.
Hetepheres was before her.
Cleopatra didn't prove a female can rule Egypt with prosperity. Her reign was the last one for a reason. if anything, Hatshepsut proved that a female can be a great pharaoh
Why not talk about Nefertiti the most beautiful women in history besides cleopatra is not pure Egyptian.
Sam One But my queen Nefertiti was! Undoubtedly a far prettier woman. Very beautiful. And she loved a TRUE Egyptian man. Cleo was obsessed with Roman men well she was already a mutt much like a "Meghan Markle" of her time obsessed with European men. Comparing Cleopatra to Nefertiti is like comparing Liz Taylor to Dorothy Dandridge. Like comparing Beyonce to Meghan Markle. Like comparing Gabrielle Union to Mariah Carey.
Sam One I do think both Cleopatra and Nefertiti deserve a video. I don't know much about Nefertiti, but I want to.
No one is pure We all mixed with something .
Nefertiti_goddess Cleopatra was only “obsessed with Roman men” because she was trying to keep her country together. And the idea that women or men can only have relations within their own race is idiotic and ignorant. And no one is pure anything, we are all mixed with something.
Nefertiti likely wasn't native to Egypt. She was likely a princess of a Middle Eastern kingdom like Mitanni or Hittite! She was likely sent as a gift and her marriage political. Just like many royal consorts, a foreigner!
Yea Cleopatra wasn't really Egyptian she was greek we know this because that's when the Greeks took over egypt
+latoya ingram None of the Ptolemies married Egyptians.
..so some say...some also say the Pyramids were tombs, the age of the Sphinx seems to be in question... can we trust jealous and racists historians to give truth..
and her great grandmother was the sister of Antiochus Epiphanes.
Liri 👽-"Erika Sims This is gonna change your mind for sure."
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+nogh thangs Great great grandmother.
Plus she has remained forever interesting! Charming history😃
She was also the only Ptolemy Pharaoh to actually speak Egyptian
Why does she look like Eminem in Drag in the Thumbnail
This is the image of Cleopatra used by Hollywood, although in reality she would rarely don the Egyptian vulture headdress, and only when conducting rituals at native Egyptian temples. Otherwise she presented herself as a Hellenistic Greek monarch with a royal diadem. This is true of her own damn coinage that she minted along with the vast majority of Roman sculptures and paintings depicting her as a typical (white) Greek monarch.
The Unknown Psycho damnnn that’s what I thought
Lmfaooo
The Unknown Psycho i think she looks beautiful she looks like a thinner katy perry
lucarerys targaryen and katty perry looks like a thinner younger paula deen.
there were about 9 cleopatras in all. 7 who ruled egypt. the more you know
If we are including every Greek woman who ever lived and had the name Cleopatra (and not just queens of the Ptolemaic dynasty, of which there were seven), then there were a lot more than just nine Cleopatras. For instance, Alexander the Great's own sister was named Cleopatra. There was a "Cleopatra the Alchemist" who lived in Egypt during the 3rd century, but obviously long after the name "Cleopatra" had entered the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Our fifth grade teacher's name is Cleopatra. 😂
All females of the Ptolemaic Dynasty were named Cleopatra. As also, all males were called Ptolemy.
+Dimitri Modesto The queens were all named Kleopatra, Berenike, and Arsinoe.
Eric Connor, don't do that. You know they were not all Greek. And the one that was was mixed.
Cleopatra was white of European decent. My dad is from Macedonia and has very fair skin and had red hair when he was younger and I have relatives from Macedonia who are blonde with light eyes. She might not have been as "tan" as some people want to believe considering she was royalty and her gene pool was less tainted.
@Haneen Abdelaal: ancient Macedonians were Greeks (for the most part, at the very least their native language was a sibling one to Greek), although Bunny Official could be confusing them with the modern Slavs who now inhabit FYROM, not sure about that. In either case yes, Cleopatra was an ethnic Macedonian Greek and southeastern European in origin, descended from Ptolemy I Soter, general of Alexander the Great.
"" and her gene pool was less tainted." Dunno mate. Incest featured heavily among her and her rellies. I'd hardly call that a "less tainted" gene pool but a rather limited one.
Eric Connor Well said!! Kudos!!!!👏👏👏👏
There is some speculation by historians that Cleopatra’s mother may have been part ethnic Egyptian because of her facility with the Egyptian language. Of course this is just guesswork -almost nothing is known about her mother. Cleopatra had a natural talent for languages which could explain her fluency with Egyptian
All greeks can automatically identify how she was of greek descent, not only from attending history class where we were taught alexander the great history over and over again, but just by looking at her family tree where all of the members' names are greek with a meaning in greek. We never questioned the descent of the glorious pre-ptolemaic Pharaohs, whose names make absolutely no sense in greek, but even them were probably not of sub-saharan african descent, most likely north-african, akka medditerenean, looking the same as the average modern egyptian citizen. There's so much black history to be proud of, trying to claim european history that's been mentioned by thousands of historians (european and non european ones) throughout the years, long before there was this white-versus-black construct america invented in modern history, is plain silly. Open some history books guys
You go from mispronouncing it as Ptalomy, to saying it correctly as Ptolemy.
CrematedChimera
Toe-luh-mee
God forbid they correct a mistake right?
Correcting a mistake would have been recording the line again to get it right.
One thing is for sure,our world is an amazing place and a lifetime is to short to take it all in
This was informative and entertaining, thank you
Cleopatra VII Philopator Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopátra Philopátōr (69 BC - 30 BC) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt .As a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy , a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. After the death of Cleopatra, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the second to last Hellenistic state and the age that had lasted since the reign of Alexander (336-323 BC) Her native language was Greek, and she was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language.Cleopatra could speak multiple languages by adulthood and was the first Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language. she also spoke Ethiopian, ,Hebrew , Arabic, the Syrian language Median, and Parthian, and she could apparently also speak Latin.
To everyone saying she’s white or black, she’s from the Ptolemaic dynasty a Hellenic line, the last dynasty of kemet ( Greek, she was early Greek ) please do research and even though she may be “ white “ she is still our african Queen, beautiful and charismatic, africa has many different colours and shades don’t get pigment take away your history.
You are completely redicoulous !!!!
that's like saying someone from Canada taking relationship credits to Inca kings and Queens. Just because they are I. same continent, America.
Same difference !
Stop trying to feed off somebody else's historical fame and make one for yourself !
footpuppy100 she was born in Egypt? Her family had been there for hundreds of years I didn’t say u credit them for building the pyramids I’m saying I credit them as African kings and queen who brought a new culture to the region and Alexander didn’t conquer independent Egypt, kemet had long died before his generals took over.
+Gameboy Hotline yessss, realize this, just because somebody else has done great things, it doesn't make your or anyone else great just because your are from same country.
That was the Arian philosophy. Hitler, built on that. By the way, just like Cleopatra wasn't totally Egyptian, but early Greek.
Hitler was not German. he was born Austrian. Called themselves Egyptian and German respectively through naturalization.
@foopuppy100 She was an African Queen and Africa can be proud of her. Her Greek heritage doesn't change that.
There were black occupiers of the throne of Egypt for well over a century.
For some reason I thought the thumbnail was Katy Perry
lol me too . her one song have similar black wig lol
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Same! 😂😂😂
ϟ ꌗꍏꀸ ꁅꀎꎭꎭꌩ ꌃꍟꍏꋪ ϟ that's why I clicked it lmao
Milk or "lactic acid" is still used today as a beauty product. Its a great chemical exfoliant (removes the dull dead skin cells) to reveal a smoother, more youthful, glowy appearance. Its great ingredient if you have dry, textured skin. It also helps with blackheads as it penetrates the pore and removes dirt and oil. I use it 2-3x per week.
proud to be greek
xoxoaudrey Greeks and Romans destroyed Egypt
@@NubiansNapata Egypt was thriving due to (and not only) the greek presence until some decades ago when the fondamentalist islam aroused.
Proud to be Macedonian
Mustafa المحارب النوبي They didn't. They respected the Egyptian ways, religions, traditions, etc. They actually got along nicely, they loved Egypt and Egypt loved them, for the first time in centuries Egypt was back. Even though Cleopatra herself, was the first of the Ptolemaic dynasty to learn the Egyptian language, embrace the culture, and associate herself with goddess Isis. Romans however did destroy Egypt a bit, but not as much as the Persians did a few hundred years later, and after the Arabs invaded and forced their traditions, their religion, their language, Egypt pretty much became Arab as you see it today where they're all Islamic and speak Arabic. That destroyed Egypt more, IMO because that's when they lost their own identity, culture, gods/goddesses, and their own language.
Egyptian culture almost was dead, lost, and forgotten until around the late 1800s-early 1900s when archaeologists started exploring and finding tombs and artifacts.
@@Streetw1s3r islam destroyed persia as well
4:20 Looks like cleopatra's eating caesar than making out with him
Ikr
Queen Nefertiti for her beauty.
Ooo fun fact:
One man claims that Nefertiti's bust is a fake.
@@tranminhthy274 ramses oppinion would be more important
Ms Cleo the Jamaican psychic fortune teller
When I think of Nefertiti I think of Iman from "Remember the Time" video I think that's as close to what Nefertiti looked like in life & like Cleopatra she was a smart woman too only she had looks to match.
Queen Nefertiti is known for her beauty but she's also known as the widow of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who continued for a short time his legacy of monotheistic worship before the polytheistic Egyptian religion was restored, following her death. For that reason many artworks depicting her and her husband were defaced and destroyed.
If I had a time machine i'd go back in time to ancient Egypt and sing the song Wild by Jessie J and then go back to the present like nothing happened.
Egyptians were NOT black. They were Egyptian. They looked Middle Eastern.
EXACTLY!
As well as Africans aren’t “BLACK.” They are African. The black and white term is a label based on skin color. It’s a divisive label that makes no sense at all. Most people are of multiple ethnicities. Also many middle eastern people have the same skin tone as some Japanese people or Central African people. In addition, many celebs that are thought to be “white,” have “black” parents. Race labels are pointless.
@Mila B: regardless of all of that, Cleopatra's only known ethnic heritage was Macedonian Greek by virtue of belonging to the Ptolemaic dynasty and if it weren't for her distant Sogdian Iranian ancestor Queen Apama of the Seleucid dynasty, she would be entirely of European ancestry. As far as we know she had no native Egyptian or other African blood in her. Ancient paintings, coins, and statues show a Greek Caucasian woman.
Actually, you're wrong and oversimplifying a region. Egypt was a trading center much like a modern city. There were definitely "Black" Egyptians. That's like saying because America is mostly white now that Americans were not "red" or whatever. It's called imperialism, capitalism, and migration.
Eric Connor I don’t disagree with you. My comment was to address Cleopatra being the current race label of “white” or “black.” She may not have had any African ancestry. Regardless, she was not “white” and she was not “black.” Those labels make absolutely no sense and have no true reasoning other than what someone looks like. And, even then, it’s wrong most of the time...if DNA were to play a part in what someone’s make up was.
This is interesting. I never heard a chance to learn this type of history. I had a really crappy history teacher who barely taught at all. And that was a "hit and miss" course of American History.🤷
I thought the thumbnail was Eminem in drag.
Would totally smash
Dread Legend73 damn
I click this video to find this comment.
I was going to say the exact same thing. "Please tell me someone else thought that was Eminem in the thumbnail" lol
What is going through your head
She was fascinating.
QUEEN cleopatra was bewitching nobody could resist her
sure is weird...!
she was not egyptian she was greek. Just like the british royal family is not british but german.
*English
😂😂😂😂 No. She visited Greece she wasn't Greek .... Where do you ppl get your history? Stop watching old movies with Elizabeth Taylor.
@@PharoahTheGoldX she was born in Egypt but had Greek blood.
I love Cleopatra! Thanks! The Cleopatra Exhibit, at the Franklin Institute, a few years ago, was absolutely incredible!! Pieces of her jewelry, 12 foot statues of her, & Marc Antony, so much!! The Narrator had , to me, the perfect voice for Cleopatra! She was a BRILLIANT, POWERFUL WOMAN, way ahead of her time! And I was shocked to find out she was Greek! Amazing!! I learned so much at the Exhibit, & you added more! Thank you!!
She was 4'6" tall, was fluent in five or six languages (this video says nine), and had a beautiful voice.
How can you know how tall she is, when sources claim that her body has never been found? No offence, just seriously interested.
@@ilseconstance2450 I read that somewhere. Google entries suggest 5ft.
@@bruiseraa so bullshit source, right
I am so much in love with Cleopatra gem of the Hindu ashram temple............ She doesn't get old............
Authentic, certified direct descendant of Cleopatra. She was Greek.
Love your narration! 😹
she is really beautiful. represented again as elisabeth taylor, shining again!
Cleopatra was far from beautiful.
Everyone knows that Cleopatra isn't Egyptian
darksouls45688 tell that to the we wuz kangz folk
no she's american haha cleopatra and the 40 thieves.
I ve met lot of black Americans who don't and refuse to know that she was Greek and that her name is Greek.
Well I’m am part Egyptian and everybody knows that she was part Greek and African and her family married each other to keep there blood line pure
+J& mafia Kleopatra wasn’t African.
Greece and Egypt yeyy! :D
QUEENS OF EYGPT
1. Hetepheres
2. Hatshepsut
3. Arsinoe
4. Cleopatra
Nefertiti?
Nephertitty. 😆
The name "Cleopatra" is Greek itself. It means "my father's glory." Greeks are caucasian.
T R U T H i Caucasians are from the caucus mountains.... it’s not a term for Europe it’s like calling all black peoples kemetic or Nubian
T R U T H Grecians are Of Euro Diaspora but that doesn’t mean she’s pale. Caucasians blister and burn in the sun after a few hours. Rethink your statement about how pale you think the Queen was.
Melanin is still in Grecians today so all y’all think again
I'm Greek and my family is white and everyone in Greece is white. Stop stealing my culture, thank you.
T R U T H bitch what culture? Lmao one of how many people in your population. It’s not just about you, congrats on your tunnel vision. I’m educated in anthropology world history and costume design. If you think me fact checking to your blind ass is Stealing you definitely need to re-evaluate you’re whole way of thinking😂 Melanin is where you came from it’s easy to deny some information that you lack in a TH-cam comment when I’ve received books from My Irish Professor who’s went on multiple excavations in the last two decades👀😄 I’ve touched human bones that were over hundreds of years old in my labs.
Shut the fuck up educate yourself before you spew No’s everywhere 😂😂🤣
Egyptians/Greece/Italy Rome are all mixed together. And That is how we are all here today. Like it or not . History does not lie.
I wish my father could hear that. He's so prideful of being 100 percent Swiss. I hate it.
0:36 I would actually say, "Isis! Osiris! And Horus!"
And most ancient Egyptians would have said: Aset, Ausar, Heru, Harakhte, Heru'wer, Har-se-Aset (Harsesis)... I think you get the idea. Egyptology is a fascinating field of study. Give it a try sometime. The ancient Egyptians were, over the thousands of years of their recorded histories, several cultures living together. Sometimes they sought for Ma'at (truth), and sometimes not, much like humanity in this age.
I’m confused 🤷♂️ right now
All these Black people actually think that Northern Africans of the Roman Age world were Ethnically Sub saharan african? You have to be Joking - Most of the Mediterannian rulers were of Greek DNA due to Alexander the Great - Heck Alexandria - One of the biggest cities in Egypt was built and named for Alexander the Great - A GREEK
Love that Cleopatra is so educated. Always liked her and love Egyptian culture. And phrase "Who wouldn't be enamoured when their date shows up on a perfumed barge" is so funny lol 😃 and "Daily donkey milk bath" lol lol
The Greek empire known as the Ptolemy Dynasty ruled Egypt for 300+ years. Then the Roman Empire ruled Egypt for 700+ years. Ancient Egypt was ruled by white-Europeans for 1000+ years.
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You got any proof for all of that?
BULL SHIT!
#1. That she was the first Egyptian pharaoh who could actually speak the Egyptian language. Previous Egyptian leaders spoke Greek, just like most of the Romans did during their day-to-day work at this time. How do you think that SHE and Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, various Roman Senators and etc. spoke to each other about this and that? But she choose the wrong horse at the end.. Just like she killed her sister and brother before her . (" WOW Augustus wins it! Down the stretch he comes. Miles ahead. What a finish! Yes Folk's we're gonna remember this one a long time.." Caesar, caesar, caesar!
Do you mean Ptolemaic leader, Egyptian leaders would surely have spoken Egyptian due to their origin.
I'm Egyptian, A COPTIC CHRISTIAN EGYPTIAN, I shout that out loud because we are the most pure blooded Egyptians out there and that's not only my opinion that's what Egyptologists, Historians and Scientists also agreed on , and I tell you that every word that Bassem Youssef said is right and I totally agree with him.
Yes Egypt had lots of mixed cultures throughout its history like for example: Greeks, Romans and Arabs, but the Egyptian blood didn't mix and change that much and that's because for centuries we Egyptians had a golden tradition rule to marry our cousins, and that tradition is still present until now especially in Upper Egypt(from Assiut to Aswan), Although that tradition seems silly and bad from a scientific biological point of view, but that doesn't matter, silly or not we kept that tradition of marrying our cousins for centuries and that helped us to preserve our pure Egyptian blood not mixed as long as we could, and the result is what you see now and that is Modern Egyptians looks typical to their Ancient Egyptian Ancestors, just look at my skin color and Bassem Youssef's skin color we are almost the same although he is a Muslim who was born and lived in Cairo and I am a Coptic Christian who was born and lived in Luxor and there is almost a 1000 km distance between us, doesn't that tell you a thing or two about who Ancient Egyptians were and what they looked like?
With all due respect for all the Black people and all the other ethnicities out there, but we Egyptians are special very special, WE ARE NOT Black or White or Yellow, Not Europeans or Africans or Asians, Not Assyrians or Persians or Israelites or Nubians or Greeks or Romans or Arabs or French or Italians or Germans or British or Turkish or Ukrainians, Not Middle Easterners or Caucasians or Mediterraneans or Levants or Amazigh or Berbers or even North Africans.
WE ARE
EGYPTIANS,
WE ARE
VERY UNIQUE!
Cleopatra made a curse before she died, cursing to her belongings
Only The True God knows the Truths! ♥️🌷🕯
Yeah but there's evidence right.....
Ra Ra Cleopatra.
I like how you involved horrible histories in this lol. Nice nostalgia lol.
Of course i knew this already, if i used to watch horrible histories as a kid then i'd probably research more on it lol.
Why are people on this video accusing Black Americans of thinking Cleopatra is black? There are many people who question her racial and ethic background. I personally am not in a rush to claim the queen that failed. For the record there were other great queens that came before her and Hatshephut.
Be who wants a woman who is the product of 300 years of incest, murders her own relatives for power, marries her brother, then kills him. Then seduces one man after the other have children by them.
What African American would want that filth as their ancestry.
Ashwin Mouton exactly what I was thinking 🙄🙄
She killed only one relative - her sister. And if she didn't, her sister would have killed her first. She constantly plotted against her. Her brother drowned in the river, when he was chased by Caesar's army. And why is that so horrible to seduce men in order to have heirs? Would it be better if her male relatives sold her in marriage, as was customary in the time? And men that she 'seduced' had dozens of mistresses themselves. So it's the question who seduced whom there. She lost because anyone would have lost to August, the most brilliant politician in Roman history.
People it's a fact that Cleopatra was not African in ethnicity. She was of Greek descent. Please look up the facts before you start crying"whitewashing history". Her lineage is Greek lol just look at the name! Also every ethnicity has a culture and history to it; whether Black, White, Asian, Polynesian and everything else on between. Stop being hateful, ignorant, small minded people and grow up. Cleopatra's ethnicity doesn't change the fact that she was a powerful woman. It's history so move on and do your research. Thank you for being understanding and acting like grownups 😃
I don’t know why nobody knows how cleopatra died. Her mummified body is in a museum and it must be possible to get more information about this.
I don't even know why I read the comments on here because people act so special on her not saying anyone is special....just acting like it. People turn one little thing on a video and try to make some kind of racist thing. Y'all need to stop..do your own research and dna studies and all that. Most people have mixed with other races and have kids with different skin tones due to those things. So what if she may be a little black or white or whatever she has in her. The important thing is that she ince ruled in eygpt. Not all of them obliviously we're the same. Other types of people have settled through out history as well. When I think of eygpt, I don't think of black or white people but very tanned people. But I know there has always been a mixture of poeple there through out history. Get over yourselves and stop complaining about everything.
LOL. Why are you assuming Cleopatra VII Philopator was a native Egyptian or an indigenous African of any kind? She was an ethnic Macedonian Greek of European origin, she and her Ptolemaic ancestors descending from Ptolemy I Soter, a general of Alexander the Great (who conquered Achaemenid Persian Egypt in the 4th century BC). Cleopatra was also culturally Greek, spoke Greek, and ruled Egypt from Alexandria, a Greek city-state.
Sounds to me like you didn't know any of that, given your vague speech about tanned people. Cleopatra and her entire royal family were white colonizers. This is how the contemporary ancient Romans painted her, in frescoes discovered from the archaeological sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii (anyone with a functioning brain and pair of eyes can decipher that she is a light-skinned Caucasian in these depictions):
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Eric Connor stop going through every comment its really sad this lady tried to be a neutral as possible but you still had to try « educate » her chill man
This video confuses me more!!! Why did I even watch this!!!
The famous Cleopatra was the seventh to have the name.
Whoa... Cool!
I like that name Cleopatra.
It means "Glory to the father" in Greek. The name Cleopatra predated the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties of the Hellenistic period. It was the name of Alexander the Great's sister as well as a princess in Greek mythology, Cleopatra Alcyone, the wife of Meleager.
Macedonian's are European
that means they are not African
shocking i know.
Exactly black people trying to claim someone who isn't black but won't claim WoahVicky
@DJ Ezasscul No Spanish person claims to be black, they usually adamantly claim that they are white.
And,how do you know all of this information is accurate?
Arsinoë wasn't a harmless lily either. She tried to seize power for herself and had herself proclaimed Queen when Achillas tried to trap Caesar in Alexandria and in the process, Cleopatra.
Not bad Grunge.
Luke Zuzga Her father was "white" and her mother subsaharan African according to recent historical finds.
Jachimma Her Father was Greek part of the Ptolomy Dynasty. The only way she could have been anything other than Greek would have been if she was an offspring of the harem but thats unlikely becuase of the Dynasty trying to keep bloodlines "pure." Much like she married her brother.
+Jachimma Kleopatra’s mother was the sister or niece of her father. There are no finds suggesting she was African. And don’t bother bringing up those remains in Ephesus which are not even proven nor confirmed to be those of anyone related to Kleopatra.
Fabian Hale Thank you for your input and you are correct.
Problem is not that Cleopaatra was black or white but as soon as it is
mentioned that she greek ancestory , whites automatically put britissh
(or northern european woman) as cleaopatra . Its hikacking of Greece ,
British has actually stolen greece history and made it their own .
Loved this short funny documentary 😂😂😂
Ha ha ha ha ha very funny
She was Greek. She was of the Ptolemy linage one of 4 generals that split the Greek empire after the death of Alexander the Great.
In her book "Cleopatra: A Life" which I highly recommend Stacy Schiff tells us she was a "competent and clear-eyed sovereign".
Her "competence" led her to be the last Egyptian Pharoah. She lost Egypt forever'
She was a GENIUS
She was in a line of many queens that ruled Egypt. Even though she was Greek
Cleopatra was the divine queen of simps that made Roman fought each other
Agreed
i pretty much knew all of these from doing a report on her for middle school
OR SHE WAS REALLY A GODDESS
I could do without the constant drive of unwanted music grinding in the background, in attempt to make the video information seem exciting. Not a future subscriber!
nice, deriving looks from ancient coins, GJ!!!
GREECE IS EVERYWHERE
From that time to even nowadays lol We be going everywhere! 😁😂
I wish I knew what movies some of these clips were from. I'd be interested in watching them.
Hatshepsut, Ramses, Akhnaton, Amenhotep the I and more real Egyptians I can named.
.....Seti .
Correct. I too am Egyptian and this is why it is very important for people to do genetic research before assuming that a culture is being whitewashed. Egyptians are simply Egyptians. And back then they married other Superior leaders to secure their position and station. Egypt is not even all just sand like how Hollywood advertises. Egypt actually has cities and clubs just like Miami. The only reason why Egypt has poor representation is because they have very strict rules and laws on filming over there because if the cops e with a camera they think that you have all this money and they will try to take the money from you. Like they would charge you for photos and video. You can get away with your phone camera however.