What was the racial and family background of Cleopatra?

Cleopatra's racial and family background are really closely linked. She and most of the Ptolemaic dynasty she belonged to were a product of incest to the point that she had only two great-great-grandparents instead of the expected 16. read more

Cleopatra's racial and family background are really closely linked. She and most of the Ptolemaic dynasty she belonged to were a product of incest to the point that she had only two great-great-grandparents instead of the expected 16. Going even further back she had a couple of ancestors among the Seleucid dynasty and one or two other nobles. read more