Cleopatra first became the subject of a major film in the 1930s with Claudette Colbert playing the sultry Egyptian queen. In the 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor starred in the legendary mega budget epic biopic of the the Queen of the Nile. Now Angeline Jolie is preparing to play her in a new film and British TV is about to broadcast a major multi-part documentary about the real Cleopatra. In conjunction with that, scientists have released what they feel is an accurate depiction of how one of history's most legendary females actually looked - and while she might not be Liz Taylor, she ain't bad.
Click here for the Daily Mail's article on the real Cleopatra. (Note: the article repeatedly erroneously states that the 1963 epic was released in 1961)