What ethnicity was Cleopatra?

Racial profiling and manipulation have been around for a very long time. It has become an issue in contemporary politics, and over 2500 years ago the Greek historian Herodotos wrote that ethnicity was regularly turned to political ends. read more

Overall Cleopatra’s ethnicity is the subject of ongoing debate, even though there is no real evidence of her ethnicity, so it therefore shouldn’t matter because she has been one of the most successful and powerful women in ancient history. read more

FOR CENTURIES, BLACKS, WHITES, Greeks and Egyptians have debated the ethnicity and nationality of Queen Cleopatra VII. Born in Alexandra in 69BC into a Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt for three centuries, Cleopatra ascended to the throne at the age of 17. read more

Cleopatra was Greek. Although she was an Egyptian queen, her ethnicity was Greek as her ancestry came from Ptolemy Sotor, one of Alexander the Great's. read more