Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) was the Queen of Egypt, famous for her love for Mark Antony and Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra was portrayed as the most powerful woman who took advantage of her position and controlled everyone.
Cleopatra suffered from historical accounts that distorted her credibility, reduced her success and greatly exaggerated her behavior. These ancient accounts remind him that she was, in fact, one of the greatest thinkers of her time, educated by the great scholars of the Hellenistic world and studying in Alexandria, which includes the famous Library of Alexandria, and there she studied geography, history, astronomy, philosophy, international diplomacy, mathematics, chemistry, medicine, zoology, and economics. .
Cleopatra was the only member of her dynasty who spoke the ancient Egyptian language and read hieroglyphs, apart from this, she knew ancient Greek and the languages of the Parthians, Jews, Medes, Trogodians, Syrians, Ethiopians and Arabs.
It is known that Cleopatra VII spent a lot of time in some kind of ancient laboratory, and wrote many works related to herbs and cosmetics. Unfortunately, all the books he wrote were lost in a fire in AD 391, when the great Library of Alexandria was destroyed, the famous physician Galen studied her work and was able to rewrite some of the recipes she had created, and from the medicines he suggested also a special cream that helps men restore their hair.
After Cleopatra's death, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the second to last Hellenistic state and the era that lasted since the time of Alexandria.
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