[Big_Monkey]

"Scholars have long debated whether she was Greek or Macedonian like her ancestor the original Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who was made ruler of Egypt by Alexander the Great, or whether she was north African.

What? I thought it was well-accepted that she Macedonian. There's at least one coin that survives with her profile. It's clearly a European honker.

[Polybius]

There's at least one coin that survives with her profile. It's clearly a European honker.

Cleopatra portrait coins are not all that uncommon.

All I can say is that she must have been GREAT in bed.

This coin had busts of both Antony and Cleopatra.

[autumnraine]

I think the issue is less what her father was and more what her mother was, but that is really irrevelant by the find of her sister because her sister is by another mother.

So they still really haven’t figured much out except that Ptolemy was Macedonian which I don’t think was in dispute.

I still don’t know how much they have found out about Cleopatra with this find.