I was happy for two reasons when I heard earlier this week that Israeli actress Gal Gadot had been tapped to play Cleopatra in her latest Hollywood incarnation. When Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C., her birthplace of Alexandria was the capital of Egypt’s Ptolemaic Kingdom. When Cleopatra came to the throne jointly with her brother in her late teens, Cleopatra became the first-ever Ptolemaic ruler to fluently learn the local Egyptian tongue. A statue of Cleopatra, at a preview of the regional exhibition, Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt, at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Amie Dworecki / The Enquirer via AP fileCleopatra also dressed and styled herself like an Egyptian, elevated Egyptian religious practices and identified herself with the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Source: Ethiopian News October 17, 2020 08:26 UTC