What You Have Read in History Books May Not Be True After All

Cleopatra is an Egyptian

Turns out the last ruler of Egypt is not Egyptian. Cleopatra comes from the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek family that ruled over Egypt after Alexander the Great. This powerful family never bothered to learn the Egyptian language – Cleopatra was the first one to do so.

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The misconception about her nationality may be because she dressed as a representation of the Egyptian goddess Isis every time she showed herself in public. Not a lot of people knew that she was a foreign ruler.