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I'm not sure who the artist is to be honest, but this is an image of one of her original busts:

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And then there's her image of coins from the era she was alive bearing her likeness:

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She was probably even uglier :huhldup:
Correct. And fun fact is that coins bear the most accurate representations of historical figures in those times. Moreso than paintings or busts. Her being an attractive goddess looking type of woman is revisionist history at best.


But this is also rumored to be an image of her

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Yes, but you are talking about AFRICA, which has a lot of deserts and everybody in the continent don't live near the Nile or a body of water.

True but what you don't understand the desert you see in Africa today weren't anywhere near as large back then as they are today. For instance destructive agricultural techniques lead to deforestation is the reason why the desert is as big as it is. Also Africa has 3 deserts so it's not full of deserts you're thinking of the Middle East. Also African's usually settle where vegetation is abundant. Africa has mad rivers.

 

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Son if her mom wasn't black, how she learned egyptian:dead:

"One is that Cleopatra was the only ruler of her dynasty who knew, in addition to her native Greek, the Egyptian language. This suggests close association with an Egyptian speaker, perhaps her mother. Secondly, Cleopatra’s daughter, who became queen of Mauretania (and was mixed ethnically herself, as her father was Roman), honored the Egyptian religious elite at her far-off capital of Mauretanian Caesarea (in modern Algeria). This makes sense if they were part of her ancestral family. And third – especially relevant in demolishing any suggestion that Cleopatra had black African blood – the representations of her in Greek and Roman art and coins do not show anything other than traditional Mediterranean ethnicity, although artists were perfectly capable of showing other ethnic groups. "


truth is somewhere in the middle

Cleopatra was white. Alexander made his generals the rulers of sectors in his empire, Egypt was one. They were heavy into incest before Cleopatra.
 
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