What does Cleopatra look like?

Answer 1

Cleopatra is depicted on the silver screen as a great beauty. We hear that Cleopatra seduced the great Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and we assume that Cleopatra used her great beauty as a diplomatic aid in putting Egypt on a more favorable footing with Rome. However, we don't know whether Cleopatra was a beauty. Instead, what evidence we have seems to suggest she was not. Unfortunately, Cleopatra, strapped by great debt incurred under the reign of her father, Ptolemy Auletes (Ptolemy the Flute-player), thought it imprudent to mint gold coins, so only lesser metals were used to commemorate her reign. The imprint on gold would have survived the centuries better than baser metals. Only ten individual coins from the reign of Cleopatra have survived in very good, but not mint condition, according to Guy Weill Goudchaux, in his article "Was Cleopatra Beautiful?" in the British Museum's publication "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth." This is significant because coins have provided excellent records of the faces of many monarchs. In one set of coins Cleopatra and Mark Antony look very similar. In another set, she has "an enormous neck and the features of a bird of prey."

Cleopatra may have been beautiful, ugly, or somewhere in between. Certainly, she was intelligent, a good diplomat, and queen of an area important for Rome, so it is no wonder that leaders of Rome like Caesar and Mark Antony, would fall in love with Cleopatra, while another Roman leader, Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus), would fear and revile her.

Answer 2

The real Cleopatra was Greek. She was fair-haired, blue-eyed, and not too attractive, according to the image of her face that was stamped on coins.

It is true that she is Greek, fair-haired, and blue eyed, but it is very untrue that she was ugly. We believe that the coins with Cleopatra's face were just clumsy carvings. She actually was so beautiful that she seduced 4 men that she eventually married.
Many believe she has dark skin and black hair. She actually was not Egyptian. She had honey-blond hair and deep blue eyes. She wore sparkles in her hair and eyebrows.
But, since she wasn't Egyptian, she probably didn't have a sarcophagus

Answer 3

Queen Cleopatra looked like this she was beautiful ,pretty and intelligent. so don't think she was ugly because she wasn't don't even listen to the ones that say she was ugly in fact she was BEAUTIFUL!

Answer 4

Cleopatra's complexion was brownish , as opposed the reddish complexion of Elizabeth Taylor . She had both Egyptian and Greek features . Even her forehead was broader and cheeks were more pointed than Liz Taylor . Different descriptions of Cleopatra had been given by William Shakespeare , George Bernard Shaw and others .

Answer 5

According to the latest facial reconstructions of Cleopatra, which were taken from her coin portraits at various stages of her life and the statues that are of her, her physical appearance would be disappointing to those expecting a Hollywood beauty. She had rather small eyes, high cheekbones, a large nose, a sagging jaw, and a fleshy face. The reconstructors feel that she was also overweight or "quite plumb" as they put it. This last speculation on her weight reaffirms the fact that obesity ran in the Ptolemaic family. Although not ugly, she was definitely not the great beauty that Shakespeare and Hollywood make her out to be.

Answer 6

It looked like the other masks from ancient Egypt. It was gold with hieroglyphics on it with illustration.