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Why was Cleopatra's blood Egyptian?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was a Macedonian Greek. She ruled Egypt and followed the Egyptian religion and culture, but her bloodline was Greek.

She was also the first of the Ptolemies who actually took the trouble to learn Egyptian.

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