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The latest facial reconstruction of Cleopatra that I am aware of is by Dr. Martin Weaver, whose work appears in Diana Preston's bio of Cleopatra. It is disappointing if you are expecting to find an ancient beauty. Using the various coin images of Cleopatra at the different times of her reign and of known images of the inbred Ptolemies, he constructed a surprising image of the queen. All the coins and statues of her confirm that she had high cheekbones, small eyes, a large nose and pronounced chin and an underhang beneath the jaw. Being a Ptolemy, as evidenced from statues of other members of her dynasty, she would tend to be chubby and as stated in the book "quite plump". The image of her at the temple at Dendera and the stylized statues of her, support this.

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