Coin Shows Cleopatra's Ugly Truth

BBC ^ | 2-14-2007

[skepsel]

Now that you mention it "the Gaper" does ring a bell but I can't remember from where, or "Thick Lips" either. Thought I had it, but...arrgh!

[wafflehouse]

LOL not much change either way there

[Gamecock]

history's most romantic couples, were not the great beauties that Hollywood would have us believe

Somehow I think Cleopatra looked somewhat better than Liz:

[Syncro]

I didn't see a bust, just a head!

[Sam Ketcham]

"Richard Burton, had bulging eyes, thick neck and a hook nose." Burton didn't seem that ugly.

[Renfield]

I remember reading some time ago, that Cleopatra had also suffered from smallpox as a child, and had a pockmarked face.

Cleopatra's ancestry was Macedonian. She did, in all likelihood, look like Joey Buttafucco, but with smallpox scars and a knobbier chin. I'd trust the image on the coin.

[Verginius Rufus]

Robert Graves' autobiographical Goodbye to all that is worth reading--very interesting account of his experiences in the First World War. There is a little about his later life on one of the Balearic Islands in Paul Theroux' The Pillars of Hercules.

[colorado tanker]

LOL!

[Riverman94610]

Sound like good reads.I'll add them to my long list of books to read.Thank you.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I can't remember where I heard it (read, I think actually), either.

[paulat]

The guy who made the coins probably never saw either of them. If this dumbass writer really thinks these coins are a true likeness of Anthony and Cleopatra, he's in the wrong business.

Wow! You're all over the place with negativity!

SMOOCH!

[RinaseaofDs]

Wow! Good catch. Can't wait to see the movie again just to catch the watches!

[ARCADIA]

I like to think of Cleopatra like this

[SunkenCiv]

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The face of Cleopatra: Scientists recreate the first true image of the legendary beauty
DailyMail.uk | 15th December 2008 | Fiona Macrae
Posted on 12/15/2008 9:59:29 AM PST by yankeedame
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