caesar novus Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/arts/des...?pagewanted=all Well, maybe the hype for Cleo is needed to cover exhibit expenses, rather than being mindless new age ideology. It does seem a flip-flop in the usual victimology rant... support annointed "minority" member who gained power rather than the Egyptian people withstanding such an imposed dictator family of foreign origin. Just how isolated she was from Egyptian culture is suggested by a Wikipedia paragraph (possibly disputed in this forum earlier): The high degree of inbreeding amongst the Ptolemies can be seen from the ancestry of Cleopatra VII. As the stemma below shows, she only had four great-grandparents and six (out of a possible 16) great-great-grandparents (furthermore, four of those six were descended from the other two). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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