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David Ruffin would kick your ass
They both look like they got nice hands.either him or prime James Brown....
Lin Que from the Blackwatch Movement old hip-hop heads like @Art Barr know who im referring to
you're very foolish to think that the empire during cleopatras time was any type AFRICAN.
during that time, there was the people in sudan who were fighting these mixed lightened up egyptians.
did you even do research on the pyramids south of egypt in sudan?? do you know there are TWO egypts and the one Cleopatra came from was FARRRRRRR from nubian.
Stop bigging up these recent egyptians as blakk. they werent. they were the remnant of the nubians they hated in LIGHTER more EUROPEAN form.
there was a reason the wanted her as a leader. SHE WAS GREEK AND "EGYPTIAN". her mom was no part nubian like the way you think.
at all.
stop glorifying light skinned woman with egyptian and greek type hair. she was mixed and her nubian was generations ago.
she got with a roman to continue her light blood on purpose.
she wasnt blakk the way you are making her to be.
nefertiti was more african then cleopatra by farrrrrr
No @Entrapta310 is right, Cleopatra was a Persian Greek, and NOT an ancient Egyptian (not even close to those eras). Whites took over Egypt in more recent times, have you not noticed that modern Egypt is primarily Arab/cac? Cleopatra isn't of the black/ancient Egyptian dynasties. Learn some history.
This is what you want to smash, and it doesn't get more cac than this:
Any historian that studied Cleopatra and the Ptolomey's (her dynasty) will tell you Cleo was not a good looking lady. But what did give her immense appeal and the ability to seduce the most powerful Roman men was her "sweet sounding voice" that flowed from language to language (because she spoke multiple), her intelligence (she was a very smart woman and a very good politician), and she was very charming.
Oh and the Ptolomey's (her family) were not Black. They were brought in to rule Egypt post Alexander the Great's conquest of the country. So that's that.
Wasn't she originally Isis from X-Clan?
Cleopatra's mother 'was African'
Elizabeth Taylor's European Cleopatra persists in the public imagination
Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty, was part African, says a BBC team which believes it has found her sister's tomb.
Queen Cleopatra was a descendant of Ptolemy, the Macedonian general who ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great.
But remains of the queen's sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey, indicate that her mother had an "African" skeleton.
Experts have described the results as "a real sensation."
The discovery was made by Hilke Thuer of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
"It is unique in the life of an archaeologist to find the tomb and the skeleton of a member of Ptolemaic dynasty," she said.
They were real people and not the semi-mythical figures portrayed by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Archaeologist Neil Oliver
"That Arsinoe had an African mother is a real sensation which leads to a new insight on Cleopatra's family and the relationship of the sisters Cleopatra and Arsinoe."
They lived at a turbulent time when the Roman empire was extending its power across the Mediterranean.
Cleopatra established alliances with the Roman leader Julius Caesar and, after his assassination, with his political supporter, General Mark Antony, to whom she was married.
"Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony - they are all iconic figures from history," said archaeologist Neil Oliver who presents the BBC documentary.
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"It's almost impossible to remember they were real people and not the semi-mythical figures portrayed by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was like a splash of cold water in the face to be confronted by them as human beings, " he continued.
"When I stood in the lab and handled the bones of Cleopatra's blood sister - knowing that in her lifetime she touched Cleopatra and perhaps Julius Caesar and Mark Antony as well - I felt the hairs go up on the back of my neck."
"Suddenly these giant figures from history were flesh and blood," said archaeologist Neil Oliver.
Cleopatra also looks European in this oil painting - owned by Michael Jackson
There was plenty of sibling rivalry between Princess Arsinoe and her powerful sister Cleopatra - many believe the queen ordered Mark Antony to murder her sister.
The film examines the life of Cleopatra - who had an affair with Julius Caesar - including her murderous intentions towards Arsinoe.
Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer is on BBC One at 9pm on 23 March 2009.
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yep had the nose ring and the braids back thenWasn't she originally Isis from X-Clan?