Is that mummy in British museum really from Cleopatra? The famous Cleopatra?

Answer 1

I'm afraid not:

"The mummy of Cleopatra (Greek Period), not the queen but a 17-year-old girl. If you happened to see this mummy in the old displays, it looked rather plain. Now, Cleopatra has been cleaned and stored. And her delicate, beautifully-painted shroud is on display along with her coffins. You can easily tell that (1) her parents loved her very much and (2) they also were quite wealthy."

Answer 2

Cleopatra Mummy

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Is that mummy in British museum really from Cleopatra? The famous Cleopatra?

Answer 4

In any of the history books nowhere it is mentioned that Cleopatra's mummy was brought to British Museum. The information about Cleopatra's death was -

"Antony committed suicide, having been told Cleopatra was dead. According to the doctor Olympus (an eye-witness), he was brought to Cleopatra's tomb and died in her arms. A few days later Cleopatra also died by her own hand. The ancient sources generally agree that she had two asps smuggled into her tomb in a water-jug which she applied to her arm (not, contrary to popular belief, to her breast). Her two handmaidens died with her. Octavian, waiting in a building nearby, was informed of her death, and went to see for himself."

So the mummy kept at the British muesium is supposed to be a replica or a mummy of a 17-year-old girl and not that of Queen Cleopatra. In fact it is not mentioned anywhere that the body of Cleopatra was ever mummied.

Answer 5

Actually that was Celopatra's Mummy, not Cleopatra.

Answer 6

Cleopatra was member of the Macedonian dynasty that governed Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Cleopatra had macedonian blood

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Macedonian so I'm guessing she was Caucasian.

Answer 8

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