Cleopatra VII Philopator. One of the most famous women of all history with one of the most dramatic stories. We've all heard how she gained the affections of two of the most powerful men of Rome, and ...
Edmonia Lewis was the first sculptor of African American and Native American (Mississauga) descent to achieve international fame. Her 3,000-pound masterwork, The Death of Cleopatra, commemorated ...
Rome’s Pliny the Elder described emerald in his Natural History, published in the first century AD ... The first known emerald mines were in Egypt, dating from at least 330 BC into the 1700s.